Tag: NCJ
A lawyer from Olsztyn made a donation to PiS and is a judge. His partner also contributed and he too wants to become a judge
Tomasz Kosakowski donated 12,500 zlotys to the PiS election fund and has just been appointed a judge by President Andrzej Duda. His former partner from the law firm paid 25,000 zlotys to the fund and is now applying for a position in the administrative court
The ECHR will examine PiS’s illegal dissolution of the old National Council of the Judiciary
The European Court of Human Rights accepted the application from Judge Waldemar Żurek, who is well known for defending free courts. The judge wants the Tribunal to assess his unconstitutional removal by PiS from the National Council of the Judiciary
CJEU: the Disciplinary Chamber of the Polish Supreme Court may not conduct disciplinary proceedings against judges
The CJEU has ruled that the Disciplinary Chamber of the Polish Supreme Court may not conduct disciplinary proceedings against judges or refer them to courts which do not meet the criterion of independence under Union law. The ruling is in force until the CJEU renders final judgment on the European Commission’s complaint against the Polish government. The judgment will be handed down in the second half of 2020.
“We nominated them”. Did Minister Ziobro accidentally reveal who supported the judges to the NCJ?
“We nominated such judges who we believed were ready to work on the reforms of the judiciary,” said Zbigniew Ziobro in the Senate.
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14.01.2021
Will the convicted supervise the judges in Poland?
14.01.2021
A German court refuses to extradite a German citizen to Poland, because of the state of the Polish judicial system
30.12.2020
Report: Rule of Law in Poland 2020: How to contain the Crisis and reform the Justice System?
29.12.2020
MEP Petri Sarvamaa on the rule of law conditionality: “We gave nothing to Kaczyński and Orbán”
17.12.2020
The Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court will deal with the case of Judge Józef Iwulski’s immunity on 21 January
17.12.2020