Pro Bono

At present, our pro bono activities include the following:

• we represented a mother of a boy suffering from muscular dystrophy in the appeal against the Minister of Health’s decision to refuse reimbursement for medicine - the hope for a boy is a targeted import procedure, which can be used to import medicines unavailable in Poland - the judgment passed on 9 February 2016 by the VAC in Warsaw could lead to a change favourable for patients in how reimbursement regulations are interpreted
• we provide legal support to the Ex Animo Foundation, which donated PLN 500 thousand to the Children’s Memorial Health Institute to implement an IT system to aid the work of the Central Cytostatic Drug Laboratory

• we are providing legal support for the Simply Active (Zwyczajnie Aktywni) campaign (a competition for an organisation of patients with autoimmune inflammatory diseases) by drawing up the Competition Rules and Form and carrying out a legal analysis of the final submissions and the Capital Competition verdict documentation

• we assisted during the establishment of the St. Antony’s Oxford Noble Foundation and participated in work on regulating the legal relations between the Foundation, the funding entities and St. Antony’s College

• since February 2010, DZP attorneys-at-law have been participating in “legal Tuesdays”, an activity undertaken in conjunction with the District Chamber of Legal Advisors in Warsaw to provide legal assistance to persons in a difficult financial situation who are unable to pay for legal advice
• we are involved together with the Association of Friends for Integration (Stowarzyszenie Przyjaciół Integracji) in work on the bill on equal opportunities for the disabled
• we assisted during the establishment of the LC Heart Foundation and have been assisting the Foundation with legal and organisational aspects ever since
• we are handling several dozen disputes for worse-off individuals

Also, in recent years:

• in co-operation with the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights we represented  a disabled regional public prosecutor whose employment was terminated without notice
• our lawyers ran a training course on how to carry out proper Regulatory Impact Assessments of normative acts for members of the Civil Legislation Forum (Obywatelskie Forum Legislacji) that operates within the Stefan Batory Foundation’s Programme Against Corruption
• we have provided legal support to the Mazowia Federation of Service Organisations (Federacja Organizacji Służebnych Mazowia) in the form of a legal opinion on intervention-based placing of children in childcare and educational facilities
• we have provided legal advice during talks with the Ministry of the State Treasury on ensuring a fit-for-purpose building for the Group of Public Educational Association Public Schools (Zespół Szkół Społecznych STO)
• we have drawn up an opinion on the rules for carrying out business and accounting operations by the Polish Entrepreneurs Foundation
• we established and have been providing legal services to the Ernst & Young Foundation, e.g. we cooperated with the Foundation to advise a family who were victims of an accident in the fair trade centre in Katowice and we carried out the family’s inheritance proceedings
• we have advised the Krystyna Janda Polonia Theatre Foundation on legal issues
• we have advised in a court dispute over 2% of proceeds from the privatisation of Bank PKO due to the Foundation for Polish Science
• we have advised the Journalists' Charity Ball Foundation (Fundacja Charytatywny Bal Dziennikarzy) on the production of a full-length feature film
• we have advised the Supreme Pharmaceutical Council (Naczelna Rada Aptekarska) on pharmaceutical law