On 10 May 2018 the Supreme Court issued a decision in case No. III KZ 20/18, in which it highlighted the autonomy of the public defender to state his position at reopening the case, regardless of the views, of the party, he is representing. In previously mentioned glossary, the decision of the Supreme Court has been thoroughly analysed and supplemented with deliberations on procedural guarantees, compulsory representation by a lawyer, sanction of ineffectiveness and the formal rules of the written pleadings.