Supreme Court dismissed heirs' claim that deceased postal worker's estate included an expectation right to free telecom shares.

The Supreme Court dismissed the cassation appeal filed by the heirs of a deceased postal worker against Telekomunikacja Polska S.A. The heirs argued that the deceased had a legally justified expectation (ekspektatywa) to acquire free shares, which should have passed to them as part of the estate. The Court ruled that since the worker died before the new law granting such rights took effect, he never acquired the right, and thus no expectation existed to be inherited. Consequently, the claim for shares or compensation was rejected as the statutory conditions for the right were not met at the time of death.