A good start would be to reduce the length of court cases in Poland. In the US, Bernard Madoff was sentenced only 7 months after information broke about his $50 billion Ponzi scheme. In Poland, it can take years for a simple employee claim or a contract dispute to be tried. Granted, in the recent TVP in-fighting, the courts showed that they can move fast, but it’s still the exception, and not the rule.
I’m not interested in taking cheap-shots at the Polish judiciary. But, I do have a suggestion: do everything in one hearing whenever possible. In the US, once a trial starts, it usually continues, day after day, until it is finished. Here in Poland, short hearings are spaced several months apart. If the Madoff case was heard in Poland, he might have had his first hearing by now.
The old efficiency rule for executives is to touch a paper only once—take care of it immediately. If only Polish courts decided to adopt this rule.
--Judith Gliniecki











