Robert Szustkowski, an entrepreneur and philanthropist, has issued a demand for compensation of more than PLN 50 million to Ringier Axel Springer Polska Publishing House. This is the result of the Publisher’s failure to comply with the provisions of the bilateral Settlement Agreement and the violation of his good name.
– This is, to my knowledge, the highest amount of property claim in Poland in a case arising from a press publisher’s violation of its good name. The basis for the summons is the Publisher’s delay in implementing the out-of-court settlement and the contractual penalty stipulated therein by both parties,” emphasizes Attorney Elżbieta Kosińska-Kozak of the Dubois and Partners law firm, representing the injured party.
The settlement was reached in October 2020 after a non-final (favorable to Robert Szustkowski) court decision, and the signing of the agreement was supposed to end the legal dispute.
In 2017, Robert Szustkowski filed a lawsuit against Ringier Axel Springer Polska – the publisher of the web portal www.fakt.pl, www.onet.pl, www.newseek.pl for the protection of personal rights in connection with false information about him in materials published on the pages of the above-mentioned web portals, proving that they defamed his good name, demanding that the Publisher publish an appropriate statement with apologies and pay the amount of PLN 4 million to the indicated social purpose.
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