The Court of Appeal in Warsaw issued a breakthrough judgment concerning an interruption of the running of the statute of limitation with respect to claims due to filing with the court of an application to summon the debtor to an amicable settlement.
In conformity with previous, commonly accepted court practice of many years, such application, irrespective of circumstances, interrupts the running of the statute of limitation. The Court of Appeal in Warsaw, however, indicated that reiteration of the application to avoid the statute of limitation of a claim constitutes abuse of law and is not effective.
The above judgment may become a precedent to change the established practice and more restrictively apply regulations on the statute of limitation with respect to claims by the courts.