Ustanowienie pomocy prawnej dla zatrzymanego – analiza projektowanych zmian Kodeksu postępowania karnego

The analyzed bill provides that an ex officio lawyer should be appointed to a detainee before procedural steps are taken if the detainee wishes to exercise the right to make contact with him or if procedural steps are to be performed with his participation – and there is no lawyer appointed by choice. The author emphasizes that the disposer of the realisation of the right to defence is the detainee, and within the scope of this right he can decide whether or not to exercise the right to legal assistance. The proposed regulation partially introduces a de facto mandatory defence, disregarding the will of the detainee himself, which does not seem to have been the intention of the sponsor of the bill.