Konwencja CMR w orzecznictwie Sądu Najwyższego

Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie orzecznictwa Sądu Najwyższego (dalej SN), dotyczącego obowiązującej w Polsce konwencji genewskiej z 1956 roku o umowie międzynarodowego przewozu drogowego towarów (zwanej powszechnie CMR). [...]

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The Author carries out a critical analysis of Supreme Court judgments referring to the CMR. This analysis leads to the conclusion that the CMR is properly applied by the Supreme Court as a rule, which does not mean that some of the assertions contained in the particular judgments are not debatable. The Supreme Court applies the CMR obeying its obligatory character. In a few of its judgments, the Supreme Court rightly objected towards too hasty use of Polish law to plug the alleged loopholes in the Convention. In their grounds for some of the judgments, the Supreme Court refers to judicial decisions of some of the European courts, which is an expression of the autonomy in interpretation of the Convention. On the other hand, one may notice some tendencies in the Supreme Court’s judicial decisions which may raise doubts. These doubts refer to such an interpretation of the Convention which does not take into account its international character. It is expressed, among others, in the interpretation of the Polish translation of the Convention and not the interpretation of the official texts of the Convention in the French and English languages (also published in the Journal of Laws). The Supreme Court has not always managed to object to the tendency of deciding on matters which were not regulated expressly in the CMR based on internal law, sometimes without examining which national law governs a particular contract (based on conflict of law rules) but simply directly referring to Polish law.