Duda: Legal chaos threatens Poland
Andrzej Duda has disagreed from the very beginning with the changes introduced in the Prosecutor General’s Office by Minister of Justice Adam Bodnar.
ECtHR: the meeting schedule of the Constitutional Tribunal President is public information
The meeting schedule of Julia Przyłębska is public information, and its non-disclosure was a violation of the law,” ruled the European Court of Human Rights after a complaint from the Civil Network Watchdog Poland.
Dariusz Korneluk to be the new National Prosecutor. There are also 10 candidates for the Director of the National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution (KSSiP)
Korneluk, the vice president of Lex Super Omnia, won the competition, defeating 4 other counter-candidates. Now it’s time for the competition for the director of KSSiP. Bodnar also obtained permission to dismiss the president of the District Court in Poznań.
Bodnar’s Action Plan. How to restore the rule of law and unblock funds for the National Recovery and Resilience Plan [DETAILS]
Adam Bodnar presented a plan to the European Commission for fixing the justice system after the PiS government. This is a package of 10 acts, which are intended to help end the disputes with Brussels, unblock the billions for the NRRP and truly reform the courts and the prosecution service. We have the details.
Change of Course: Polish Government Aims to Uphold Decisions of European Tribunals
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.
Bodnar: ‘I will hold Ziobro’s people accountable. I will change the courts, I will give the prosecutors independence’
Adam Bodnar announces 9 Acts reforming the justice administration. First, the NCJ, the Constitutional Tribunal and the prosecution service, and the solution of the problem of Ziobro’s nominees in the courts – Schab, Radzik, Lasota and Nawacki. He describes his relations with Tusk. He talks about the ‘shocking scale’ of the surveillance with Pegasus
The courts are increasingly frequently awarding compensation to activists for mass breaches of their rights by the police
‘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
Poland has to adjust the law to the new EU directive against SLAPP suits. How should this be done?
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?
Matczak: First, the prosecution service, TVP and accountability. Dismiss the NCJ, do not promulgate the rulings of the Constitutional Tribunal
‘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 prosecutor may reopen Kaczynski’s ‘Twin Towers’. What about the Tribunal of State?
‘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
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