Caryatid at the back of Supreme Court of Poland building. Photo by Wojciech Muła (Own work) via Wikimedia Commons
In the Polish legal system the appeal to the Supreme Court is an extraordinary appellate legal measure; it does not suspend, as a rule, the validity and enforceability of the lower court judgment and it requires addressing the Supreme Court with a specific legal query that has not yet been resolved by the case law or by legal provisions.