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In August, the lawyers of the law firm Babiaczyk, Skrocki and Partners, representing one of the firm’s clients – a company in the construction industry specializing in the construction of storage and industrial facilities – successfully brought to a conclusion negotiations on a construction contract implemented in the “design and build” mode, covering a facility whose value, including the installed technology, exceeds EUR 100 million.

In August, administrative proceedings for a permit to reconstruct a power grid ended, where the law firm Babiaczyk, Skrocki and Partners represented one of its clients – a company implementing numerous development projects throughout Poland.

Between June 9 and 11 we had the honor to organize the annual conference of the international law firms network PANGEA NET and welcome over 70 guests from 20 different countries. It was the first on-site meeting of the representatives of the associated law firms in over 2 years.

On 29 April 2022, in a case under III CZP 81/22, the Supreme Court, answering a legal question whether the mere introduction of a limited use area due to the impossibility of maintaining environmental protection standards against noise in connection with functioning of an airport under the provision of Article 135 para. 1 of the Environmental Protection Law may be regarded as a limitation of the manner of using real property, constituting an independent and sufficient basis for a claim for compensation for a reduction in the value of real property, the Court held that it did not and that only specific orders, prohibitions and recommendations addressed to owners of real property located in the limited use area may be regarded as limiting the manner of using real property.

The law firm Babiaczyk, Skrocki i Wspólnicy on behalf of one of its clients brought a case to the Regional Court in Wrocław against one of Lower Silesian housing cooperatives regarding a decrease in the value of utility premises as a result of unlawful actions and negligence of the cooperative.

On the 4th of April 2022 the Regional Court in Łódź, changing an earlier verdict of the district court, as a result of an appeal filed by the Law Firm, has accepted a claim for compensation brought by the Law Firm on behalf of the Client (a company belonging to one of the largest capital groups in Europe) against the insurer.