Lech Gardocki (born 13 April 1944) is a Polish lawyer, judge and former First President of the

Supreme Court of Poland The Supreme Court ( pl, Sąd Najwyższy) is the highest court in the Republic of Poland. It is located in the Krasiński Square, Warsaw. One of the chambers of the Supreme Court, the Disciplinary Chamber, was suspended by a judgment of the C ...

, a position he held from 1998 to 2010.

Career

He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the

University of Warsaw The University of Warsaw ( pl, Uniwersytet Warszawski, la, Universitas Varsoviensis) is a public university in Warsaw, Poland. Established in 1816, it is the largest institution of higher learning in the country offering 37 different fields of ...

in 1966. In 1969 he passed the judicial exam. In 1971 he obtained a doctoral degree in legal sciences, he defended a thesis entitled ''Service crimes in the legislation of socialist countries''. In 1979 he became a habilitated doctor in the field of criminal law based on the work entitled ''Issues of internationalization of criminal liability for offenses committed abroad''. In 1991 he was appointed an associate professor at the

. A year later he was awarded the title of professor of legal sciences by President

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. On 4 July 1996 he was appointed as a judge of the

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. On 17 October 1998

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appointed him as the First President of the court. After his first term, he was appointed again then was replaced by Stanisław Dąbrowski in October 2010.

References

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