The obligatory disqualification from driving motor vehicles for the traffic offences committed while driving non – motor vehicles and by pedestrians – some of the constitutionary doubts

The article focuses on the relation between a disqualification from driving motor vehicles for the traffic offences committed while driving non – motor vehicles or by pedestrians (obligatory in the polish penal law) and the constitutionary citizen’s rights. In the author’s opinion, the obligatory character of disqualification from driving motor vehicles is an excessive form of punishment for the traffic offences committed while driving non – motor vehicles and by pedestrians due to the lack of connection between the committed crime and the type of disqualification. In consequence, it infringes disproportionately such constitutionary freedoms and rights like: right to a self – decision about a personal private life, freedom of choosing a profession, freedom of movement. It also unduly reduces courts in their judicial discretion. This type of disqualification should be facultative at most. A possibility to sentence such a culprit for even a 10-years disqualification is also criticized in this article