The study presents the latest trends and views in the analyzed area and attempts to answer the question whether it is currently possible to ensure an adequate level of protection of the rights of an individual – a party to administrative proceedings
without significantly increasing the powers of Polish administrative courts to adjudicate on the merits? Has the model of cassation case law existing in Poland, despite other procedural improvements, not exhausted the possibility of quickly settling cases of entities seeking protection before the administrative court, without significantly remodeling the competence to adjudicate on the merits of the case by leaving the decision in this respect to the administrative judge, based on for a certain general clause, even following the example of the Austrian solutions, and not, as is currently the case on the basis of the cited Art. 145a § 1 in connection with from § 3 of the Law on proceedings before administrative courts.