The concept of reinstatement of the deadline in the covid special act in light of traditional solutions of administrative law in this respect

Abstract

The outbreak of the SARS CoV-2 virus posed new and urgent challenges to the legislature and administration. The entities responsible for the legislative process in Poland seemed to have succumbed to the atmosphere of panic and introduced into legal circulation solutions that overturned the hitherto binding canons of law regarding the possibility of reinstating deadlines, types of deadlines subject to reinstatement, and requirements related to their reinstatement. These solutions, although adopted in the interest of the parties, in the author’s opinion are too radical. Moreover, they turned out to be unnecessary in practice and threaten the lack of security in legal proceedings.