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Poland Lower Courts
In 1990 the system of lower courts included forty-four
district and 282 local courts. These numbers were
scheduled to be
increased to forty-nine and 300, respectively, in 1991.
Thereafter the local courts were to concentrate on minor,
routine
offenses, and the district courts were to take on more
serious
cases and consider appeals of local court verdicts.
Misdemeanors
generally are handled by panels of "social adjudicators,"
who are
elected by local government councils. In 1991 these panels
heard
about 600,000 cases, of which about 80 percent were
traffic
violations. To relieve the heavy appeals case load of the
Supreme
Court, ten regional appeals courts were set up in late
1990 to
review verdicts of the district courts.
Data as of October 1992
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