This article tackles the question of applying in Poland a protective measure in the form of placing a person in an adequate psychiatric treatment facility. It discusses all statutory criteria for judicial application of this measure as well as remarks about the desired legislative amendments. The author does not shy away from addressing the issue of this measure being abused in practice in Poland. The author scrupulously analyses the judgments of Polish courts (precedents de facto), taking into account also the main views of the Polish legal scholars and the position of the Polish Ombudsman. Apart from that, he addresses the cases covered by the media.
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