Law of Contracts in Times of Covid-19 Pandemic: Polish Report

Authors: Radosław Strugała

ABSTRACT

As the world struggles with the Covid-19 pandemic, the debtors try to perform their contractual obligations despite the hardship it brings about. In the meantime contract lawyers are focused on trying and finding remedies that would help face the new circumstances. The remedies that enable the parties either to modify the contract or to bring it to an end seem the most apt solution in the context of current pandemic. Having said that, two provisions of the Polish Civil Code are to be considered, namely article 475 (read in conjunction with the article 495) and 3571. (…)

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