Suing for the return of the palace
The law firm filed a lawsuit to reconcile the contents of the land register with the real state of the law.
The law firm, acting on behalf of the heirs of the property’s pre-war owner, in June of this year obtained a decision from the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development stating that the property, which belonged to the clients’ family before World War II, did not fall under the operation of the decree on carrying out land reform and thus could not be nationalized by the State Treasury. The decision determines that the clients’ family was never effectively deprived of ownership of the property by the Treasury, and that the Treasury’s actions in seizing the property were unlawful.
As a result, the Treasury in 2003 donated part of the property to another public sector entity, the law firm filed in December 2023 on behalf of the heirs a lawsuit to reconcile the contents of the land register with the real state of affairs and requested the deletion of the endowed entity and the entry in its place of the heirs of the former owners as the current owners of the property. This lawsuit will therefore make it possible to disclose the real legal status of the property in the land registry maintained for it and will enable clients to recover the property in kind, after almost 80 years since its appropriation by the State Treasury.
The case is being handled by a team: Attorney-at-law Joanna Suliga-Dunst Attorney-at-law Tomasz Przybecki.