Minister Bodnar is retracting from cases that were highly publicized during the PiS administration. These cases involve the deliberate defamation of Judge Beata Morawiec by Ziobro’s ministry and the attack on Judge Waldemar Żurek.

It may take up to 10 years for final verdicts on PiS politicians and their associates. Prime Minister Donald Tusk will not be able to boast about resolving the scandals by the end of his term because there are bottlenecks and traps in the prosecution and courts left by Ziobro’s “reforms.”

Neo-judges and those who signed support lists for the illegal and politicized neo-National Council of the Judiciary (neo-KRS) will no longer serve as lecturers at the National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution (KSSiP).

Among the newly appointed neo-judges are the former controversial Children’s Rights Ombudsman, Mikołaj Pawlak, and the rapidly advancing prosecutor, Franciszek Michera, who sought the detention of Tuleya. Presidents of courts appointed by Ziobro have also been made neo-judges.

This is the balance of the first six months of Minister of Justice Adam Bodnar’s term. But it’s not the end. There are already new promotions and further dismissals of Ziobro’s appointees in the courts of Białystok, Rzeszów, Konin, and Słupsk.

Investigation by OKO.press and TVN24: Documents with judges’ data were taken from the Ministry of Justice, where the KastaWatch account was created to discredit judges. We have evidence of an orchestrated attack on Judge Waldemar Żurek and indications that Zbigniew Ziobro knew about it.   OKO.PRESS and TVN24 journalist Marta Gordziewicz have obtained new evidence […]

Justice Minister Bodnar has just appointed three new court presidents in Poznań. The local courts in Poznań and Kraków are the first in Poland where independent judges will replace Ziobro’s nominees. So far, Bodnar has appointed 27 new court presidents, and we publish their list.

The appointed codification commission of the system of common courts and the prosecutor’s office, led by the president of Iustitia, Prof. Krystian Markiewicz, is to propose a true reform of the courts. This commission will also decide what to do next with the neo-judges.

Minister Bodnar wants to streamline the system of delegating judges to higher instance courts. Under Minister Ziobro, delegations were under the control of the ministry, and judges defending the rule of law did not receive them. The ministry, during the PiS government, also punished judges by swiftly revoking their delegations

The New Supreme Court Chamber Ultimately Acquits Belchatow Judge of Absurd Charges – Over the Letter from Polish Judges to OSCE. The Chamber ruled that judges have the right to speak out. This verdict is a failure for the local disciplinary spokesperson, who was the sole prosecutor against judges for this letter.