Pandemia Covid-19 a proces karny w Polsce

These are just some of the most characteristic areas of the criminal process within which the impact of the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic has been marked. There have been many more legislative changes motivated to a greater or lesser extent by the pandemic (e.g. changes in the form of creating new preventive measures, changes in the form of creating new types of offences, changes in the form of introducing new forms of fines imposed, however, by administrative bodies and in an administrative procedure for behaviour contrary to the prohibitions introduced by regulations issued on the basis of the Act on combating infectious diseases). An overall assessment of all these moves cannot go well. Many of them point to an instrumental and unilateral exploitation of the state of the pandemic by the legislator, who sought to pass on the effects in the area of slowing down the work of the judicial authorities to the citizens themselves. The impact of the Covid - 19 pandemic in the area of criminal law and criminal procedure was not limited to procedural changes only. The pandemic has also become a reason, and sometimes simply a pretext, for changes within criminal law and the law of offences, both those previously postponed due to lack of public acceptance and those that emerged in connection with the pandemic itself , such as the attempt to abrogate the responsibility of public officials for the crime of exceeding their powers or mismanagement insofar as they were to be committed under the pretext of combating the covid -19 pandemic.