The Minister of Justice, Adam Bodnar, announces plans to accelerate court proceedings within two years. This effort will be supported by so-called small steps—simple organizational changes that mostly do not require legislative amendments. These include management training and digitalization.

The Court of Justice does not recognise the questions of the neo-Judges of the Civil Chamber and the Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs Chamber in the Supreme Court, because they do not form a court. What does this mean?

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.

The new government is clearly signaling to both the Polish and global public opinion, as well as to EU institutions and the Council of Europe, that it will abide by the rulings of the CJEU and the ECHR.

‘Groundless’, ‘incorrect’ and often also ‘illegal’ detentions, police brutality, humiliation – demonstrators are being awarded from several to up to 20,000 zlotys by court order for that. Increasingly more activists are filing successive claims

The European Parliament and the governments of the European Union Member States have agreed on the wording of the directive protecting against groundless civil suits restricting freedom of speech. The EU States have two years to adjust national law. What should the new Polish government do?

‘Start investigations, break up the solidarity of the PiS community, show the accountability on TVP. Liquidate the neo-NCJ with a resolution of the Sejm, do not promulgate the rulings of the Constitutional Tribunal with stand-ins, vet the neo-judges. But don’t try to cure cholera with the plague,’ this is what Professor Marcin Matczak tells us about fixing the courts.

‘The public prosecutor’s office ought to clear itself of its disgrace, and I think the matter of Jarosław Kaczyński’s “Twin Towers” investment is one of its biggest,’ Jacek Dubois tells us. As a judge of the Tribunal of State, he is wondering how to depoliticize the restoration of justice

In the context of the appropriation of the public media by the ruling party, it can hardly be expected that they will comply with international, constitutional or statutory obligations. 

The Polish Development Fund could stop pre-financing investments from the NRRP later this month because of a lack of funds. The Polish Development Fund denies this information, but the Fund’s data shows the budget does not tally: it is short of at least PLN 2.5 bn