Discovery of a new criminal acquittal document allows civil labor dispute proceedings to be reopened under Polish law.

The Supreme Court of Poland overturned a lower court's dismissal of a labor dispute appeal, ordering a retrial. The employee had been wrongfully fired for an alleged crime, but a subsequent criminal trial resulted in his acquittal due to the discovery of a genuine document. The court ruled that this new criminal acquittal objectively proves the crime was not obvious, creating a fundamental legal inconsistency that necessitates reopening the civil case.