Monitor Prawniczy

no. 7/2016

Prescription of claims regarding payment for university education

Beata Janiszewska
Autorka jest adiunktem w Instytucie Prawa Cywilnego WPiA UW.
Abstract

The article discusses the issue of the time limit for claims regarding payment for university education (tuition). It has been recently one of the exceptionally disputable issues of the application of law by courts, divergently resolved in judicial practice. The analysis of this problem has been inspired by the Supreme Court Resolution of 21 October 2015, III CZP 67/15 (unpublished), which found that: “A claim for payment for university studies set out in an agreement concluded pursuant to Art. 160.3 of the Higher Education Act of 27 July 2005 in its wording effective as at 1 October 2009 (Journal of Laws of 2005, No. 164, item 1365), in the period before the Act of 11 July 2014 amending the Higher Education Act and certain other acts (Journal of Laws of 2014, item 1198), has been subject to ten-year time limit provided for in Art. 118 of the Civil Code.”