Immunitet parlamentarny we współczesnym świecie – ujęcie prawnoporównawcze
Parliamentary immunity in today’s world – a comparative-law approach.

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the article is to determine the current form of parliamentary immunity in variouscountries. The author uses the comparative-law method to analyse constitutions that represent themost common solutions, taking into account the geographic criterion, used in countries located ondifferent continents and having different legal cultures. The author analyses the subjective scope ofnon-accountability and non-violability and focuses on the time and place in which the protection isprovided, and trace the objective scope of the protection and the solutions related to the possibilityto lift the parliamentary immunities. The analysis leads to the conclusion that non-accountability issimilar in different countries, has undergone few modifications over the years, and it is permanentlyformed. In the case of non-violability, there are more extensive differences, in particular in the objective scope and the degree of protection. However, various solutions prove that there is not a singleuniversally accepted model of immunity and that the scope of the guaranteed protection can be more diverse, it can be subject to change, and be adapted to the changes in political systems andthe political and social expectations.

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