Polish jurisprudence gets better, but there is still room for improvement

World Bank places Poland in its research Doing Business on 55. place in the world and 18. in the European Union in terms of legal judgment efficiency. It is a progress from past years, but the place is still not satisfying. On average, one has to wait 685 days to get the courts of the first instance process results. "In Warsaw agglomeration one has to wait 6 months for the first hearing," Ewa Szurmińska-Jaworska, managing partner in PwC Legal, told Puls Biznesu. "It is hardly surprising that often companies do not want to file court cases, even if they have strong bases for it." Poland's judges are extremely ineffective - despite long waiting periods, the number of judges (26 professional judges per 100,000 citizens) is higher than the European average (18 judges per 100,000 citizens). Experts name bureaucracy as one of the main reasons affecting such a situation.