The regulation of services under the english law : an inspiration for the polish legislator?

Bibliogr. s. 134-136. Streszcz. ang. s. 137.

The subject of this article is to present legal solutions included in selected English acts as a specified legal concept being applied in a foreign legal order and to assess a possibility of using these concepts when creating applicable regulations which normalize providing services in the Polish economic reality. Principal considerations refer to Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 however, with regard to peculiarity of English law it is necessary to refer to selected institutions of common law as well. A conducted analysis leads to a conclusion that the English legal regulation within a range of contracts for providing services cannot be an inspiration for the draft proposals of the Polish regulations. The peculiarity of English regulation consists exactly in the lack of detailed statutory regulation of contracts for provision of services. The English regulations included in SGS ACT 1982 referring to rational expectations of contracting parties are general enough not to influence the content of provision itself in a decisive way. They rather concern setting principles of responsibility. Whereas some detailed solutions as for instance the ones that apply to supplying of digital content, can inspire a Polish legislator.