Abstract

The main aim of the article is to analyse the effect of the preparatory session and plan of trial on the efficiency of Polish civil procedure. On the other hand, an intermediary aim is to evaluate the effect of the said institutions on the volume of court settlements in jurisprudential practice.
Taken into account in the article have been the assumption of two most extensive amendments two the Code of Civil Procedure in recent years: of 4 July 2019 and of 9 March 2023. Having analysed the selected detailed issues concerning the subject on hand, several de lege ferenda postulates have been formulated.