https://doi.org/10.31261/ZDP.2019.20.42
The article presents the activity of departments dealing with cases in ad hoc proceed- ings from February to June 1946. The subject of the analysis is the Regional Court in Białystok. The research showed that at the same time there were two different departments with almost identical names. The first one was created in accordance with the decree on ad hoc proceedings of 16 November 1946. The second was a common court only by name. In order to obtain an ap- propriate tool for fighting the independence movement, officers and non-commissioned officers were temporarily delegated to common courts as judges, prosecutors and jurors. Importantly, these people did not enter the structures of the ad hoc departments of the regional courts, but came under the direct authority of the Ministry of Justice, and in fact under the military justice system. I call these departments the ad hoc civil-military courts because they combined the features of ordinary ad hoc courts with military courts, as well as KBW courts — which were constantly on the move, often changed their stopping place.
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Vol. 12 (2019)
Published: 2020-04-16
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