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Prime Minister Donald Tusk, at the request of the Minister of Justice Adam Bodnar, after consulting Magdalena Szafranek, PhD, Chairwoman of the Family Law Codification Commission, appointed (4 June 2024) members of the Commission.
The nominations from the Minister of Justice, the Prosecutor General, were received by:
1. Doctor Marek Michalak - as the honorary chairman of the Family Law Codification Commission. Former Ombudsman for Children, currently director of the Janusz Korczak Institute of Children's Rights, chairman of the International Janusz Korczak Association and chancellor of the International Chapter of the Order of the Smile;
2. Professor Jacek Wierci?ski for the Deputy Chairperson of the Committee. Lecturer at the Department of Civil Law, Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw. Member of the Association of Family Judges and expert of the Pro Familia Association of Family Judges;
3. Professor Tadeusz Biernat - lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Administration and International Relations at the Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow Academy;
4. Professor at the University of Szczecin, Kinga Flaga-Gieruszy?ska - head of the research team of civil law, procedural law, medical law and new technologies;
5. Sylwia Jastrzemska, Ph.D., judge of the District Court in Wroc?aw, adjudicating in the Civil and Family Division;
6. Anna Krawczak, PhD - co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Childhood Research Team at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Warsaw, expert of the Empowering Children Foundation;
7. Micha? Kubalski - Head of the Family Law Department in the Civil Law Team of the Office of the Commissioner for Human Rights. Legal adviser;
8. Anna Mazurczak - attorney-at-law. Director of the Department for Equal Treatment in the Chancellery of the Prime Minister;
9. Ewa Milewska-Celi?ska - attorney-at-law. In the years 2012-2018, he was an advisor to the Ombudsman for Children, former expert of the Social Policy Committee of the Sejm;
10. Jakub Pawliczak, Ph.D. – attorney-at-law and assistant professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw;
11. Professor Ma?gorzata Pyziak-Szafnicka - Head of the Department of Civil Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Lodz. Former member of the Civil Law Codification Commission, retired judge of the Constitutional Tribunal, former representative of Poland in the International Civil Registry Commission in Strasbourg;
12. Agnieszka R?kas - retired judge. Member of the Commission for Counteracting the Sexual Abuse of Minors under 15 years of age. Former member of the Family and Guardianship Law Codification Commission at the Ombudsman for Children;
13. Dorota Trautman - judge, chairwoman of the civil family appeal division of the District Court in Warsaw;
14. Ewa Wa?ny - judge, vice-president of the District Court in Gda?sk. President of the Association of Family Judges in Poland;
15. Maria Boraty?ska – researcher at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw at the Institute of Civil Law, member of the Bioethics Committee at the Presidium of the Polish Academy of Sciences;
16. Alina Prusinowska-Marek, PhD - curator, specialist in the III Probation Service Team at the District Court in Grodzisk Mazowiecki, lecturer at the National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution.
The secretary of the Family Law Codification Commission was Dariusz Cie?lik a judge of the District Court in Toru? - delegated to the Ministry of Justice to the Department of Family and Juvenile Affairs.
The task of the KKPR will be to develop drafts of normative acts of fundamental importance in family and guardianship law.
"Today is the fulfillment of the honourable obligation I made to Dr Marek Michalak years ago," Minister Adam Bodnar addressed the gathered. "When he finished his position as the Ombudsman for Children, I promised that the work he had put into improving family law and the child's status in it would be continued. I hope that thanks to your work and the interdisciplinary nature of the Commission established today, we will make corrections and necessary reforms in this law. I believe that the Commission will be a place where scientific knowledge and experience will be combined with practice, so as to best respond to challenges, improve the quality and effectiveness of family law and the work of related institutions.
As the Minister of Justice emphasized, the task of the Commission will be, m.in others, to prepare proposals for changes in family law that will eliminate the gap between the existing regulations and how our society is changing.
"The role of family law is to strengthen families and relationships between parents and children," Minister Bodnar stressed.
Deputy Minister of Justice Zuzanna Rudzi?ska-Bluszcz also took the floor. "I am proud that you have taken up this challenge and will focus on family law, which requires a lot of attention. Let's improve this system
together," she appealed.
The members of the Family Law Codification Commission were also addressed by its chairwoman Magdalena Szafranek. – Just as 4 June 1989 was a hope for a better tomorrow, today's date gives children hope for a better family law. There are many aspects that need to be analyzed and improved. These are, m.in, issues of alimony, mediation, contact with children, as well as parental abduction. We are facing many challenges, because the law is to provide security to all families without exception and to all children," the chairwoman noted.
Thank you for fulfilling your promise. Today's inauguration of the Commission means that the achievements in the field of family law, developed by 2018, will return to the deliberations - said the honorary chairman of the KKPR - Marek Michalak.
