Commentary on the Decision of the Supreme Court of January 11, 2017 (III KK 196/16, OSNKW 2017, No. 5, Item 25)

Abstract

The paper contains a critical commentary on the Supreme Court’s decision of January 11, 2017 (III KK 196/16). The author states that the meaning of statutory feature “many people”, according to the Criminal Code, should be interpreted in the same way in common language. Furthermore, in common language there are no situations, where words like “many” and “few” should be treated as synonyms. In the paper, the author criticizes systemic and teleological interpretation included in the Supreme Court’s decision.

Keywords

• wykładnia znamion przestępstw
• wykładnia językowa
• wiele osób