Quality in Sport (Dec 2015)

Exclusion of criminal liability of sports participants for sport injuries

  • Paweł Cegliński

DOI
https://doi.org/10.12775/qs.2015.022
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 4
pp. 46 – 53

Abstract

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This paper deals with one of the criminal law problems, which is criminal liability of sports participants for injuries occuring during the practice of a sport. This article aims to provide a brief summarization of the most important conception explaining this problem in Polish law – sport risk as a circumstance excluding criminal liability. The research is supported by the analysis of Polish literature. There are also some empirical examples involved.

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