Kontrowersje na temat istoty i charakteru prawnego spraw o odmowę dokonania przez notariusza czynności notarialnej sprzecznej z prawem oraz właściwości funkcjonalnej w tych sprawach sądu okręgowego

Abstract

As a result of a thorough analysis of the title issue, the author comes to the conclusion that the Regional Court, cognizing a complaint against a notary’s refusal to carry out a notarial deed contrary to law, does not resolve the legal dispute between the notary and the participant(s) of the requested notarial deed. The notary is not a participant of such a deed, but the refusal to carry it out is a sui generis decision of the notary as to the compliance of this deed with law. For this reason, the proceedings in this matter may be recognized an equivalent of judicial proceedings in a first instance case. However, the notary’s refusal to carry out the deed whose parties intend to give it a notarial form and which the notary recognized contrary to law shall be qualified as a matter as understood by Art. 45 subpara. 1 of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland. Final and binding judgement of the Regional Court as the second instance court on the merit constitutes an act of justice although the court does not resolve the legal dispute, but resolves the exercise of constitutional freedom or human and citizen rights in these matters.