In a case led by Maciej Obrębski and Konrad Figurski, the Provincial Administrative Court confirmed that the prerequisites for compensation payments for a landed property in the former Lviv province and a tenement house located in the centre of Lviv are fulfilled.
The heirs of the pre-war owner could not realise their entitlement by submitting an application by the deadline of 31 December 2008, because the former owner was not resident in the Borderlands on 1 September 1939, having moved permanently to Krakow in view of the approaching war. It was not until an amendment to the act that it became possible to seek compensation in 2014. The object of the dispute with the voivoid and the Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration was to demonstrate that it was sufficient not to have resided in the Borderlands on 1 September 1939 and that the fact that the change of residence occurred only a few weeks before the outbreak of war was irrelevant. The Provincial Administrative Court agreed with the arguments presented by the law office and overturned the decision of both the minister and the voivoid.
