The present article concerns the issues of the effectiveness of churches and other religious associations’ internal regulations in common law. The author’s considerations are mainly based on the judgments of the District Court in Poznań of November 3, 2021. The present study is not a typical gloss; furthermore, the evaluated judgment seems to be the reference point for the wider understanding of churches and other religious associations’ principle of autonomy in the secular legal order. The author presents the main research tendencies concerning the analyzed issues. Therefore, the views of representatives of religious law doctrines are discussed, as well as numerous judgments of the Polish judiciary are referred to. To present the reasoning clear, the regulations of canon law implemented by courts of first and second instance were also discussed. The complete study ends up with summaries presenting the most important theses discussed in its content.
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