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The aim of this paper is to present civil-law aspects of carrying out an economic activity by persons with disabilities who do not have full capacity to perform acts in law. Key to this discussion was a hypothesis that persons with disabilities who do not have full capacity to perform acts in law may de lege lata carry out an economic activity. In the course of the analysis, relevant provisions of the Civil Code, Family and Guardianship Code, the Code of Civil Procedure, the Act on the Central Register and Information on Economic Activity and the Entrepreneurs Act are analysed using the method of investigation of the law in force. The analysis also covers proposals for legislative changes included in the draft act on amending certain acts to improve the legal and institutional environment for entrepreneurs. The research yields the following conclusions. Natural persons who do not have full capacity to perform acts in law may carry out an economic activity in their own name, though they perform acts associated with their activity with the participation of a statutory representative. Persons with limited capacity to perform acts in law may perform certain actions related to their business activity on their own. The taking up of an economic activity and other important matters related to economic activity require consent of the family and guardianship court. Introduction of legislative changes that involve clarification of principles of taking up and running an economic activity by persons who do not have full capacity to perform acts in law seems valid. Legislative proposals presented in the draft law of 13 April 2023 are insufficient and flawed, though the direction of changes must be recognized as correct.

The Nationwide Scientific Conference “The principle of unity of the civil law vs cohesion of commercial law and family law regulations,” organised by the Civil and Commercial Law Department of the Law and Administration Faculty of the University of Szczecin in cooperation with the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, was held in the Senate Hall of the University of Szczecin on 19 October 2018. Held under the patronage of the President of the City of Szczecin, the conference was attended by 50 participants from 16 research centres who presented 10 papers and 8 communiqués.

In the course of the company’s operations submitting a dispute for settlement to an arbitration court may occur in the following two circumstances. Firstly, the parties may conclude an agreement specifying the matter at issue or the legal relationship from which a dispute arose or could arise. Secondly, an arbitration clause in the articles of association of a commercial company concerning disputes arising from company relationships is binding on the company and its shareholders. Problems connected with the issue statutory arbitration clause has been detailed analyzed in the literature. However interpretational doubts occur also in connection with objective and subjective scope of arbitration clause situated in the agreement concluded by a company. In this paper had been made an attempt to analyze cases in which the objective scope of an arbitration clause expands, in particular to answer a question whether arbitration clause situated in the agreement concluded by a company extends and includes the members of a company who held responsibility for the company’s assets.

A resolution of the limited liability company’s shareholders may be appealedagainst by bringing an action before a court for repealing such resolution. Statutoryconditions of such claim are specified in art. 249 § 1 code of commercial companies.This article stipulates that a resolution of shareholders may be appeled against whenit is: in conflict with the provisions of the articles of association or good practice anddetrimental to the company’s interest or aimed at harming a shareholder. In the legaldoctrine and judicial decisions are expressed the discrepant opinions on the characterof statutory conditions formulated in mentioned article. In particular it raise concernswhether conflict a resolution of shareholders with the provisions of the articles of associationmay be independent condition authorising appealing against such resolution.Otherwise such condition must coexist with another one expressed in that article. Thoroughanalysis of that issue presents Szczecin’s Court of Appeal in the sentence passedon the 14th of August 2013 (I ACa 358/13). This paper includes the results of the analysis of the judgement.