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EAJ unanimously adopts a resolution on Poland in Copenhagen

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On May 10th 2019 the EAJ unanimously adopted in Copenhagen a resolution on Poland.

The document is available under the following URL:

https://www.iaj-uim.org/iuw/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/RESOLUTION-ON-POLAND-Copenhagen-10-May-2019.pdf

Opinion of the CCJE Bureau following a request by the Romanian Judges Forum Association as regards the situation on the independence of the judiciary in Romania

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Opinion of the CCJE Bureau about the situation on the independence of the judiciary in Romania (opinion - pdf).

Transcript of the Prime Minister's conversation. About polish judges and EU

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University of New York 18.04.2019 – Professor: Let’s move now to some of the difficult issues. We are celebrating 15th years of a Polish membership of the European Union. All the audience is invited later on to the reception , just opposite this room, and there are some posters  of some very interesting and positive sights of that relationship. But I think today - if Europe wants to speak about Polish - European Union relationship - immediately what comes to mind - all the tensions...

Statement of the Board of Polish Judges Association "Iustitia" concerning the words of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki

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Prime Minister of Republic of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki Dear Sir, As patriots and judges, hereby we express our deep indignation at your words spoken in the last days in New York. In our judgement, they insult the dignity of the office of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland. Your short expose consists of a mix of manipulations, false statements and we consider it a sign of defamation of our own country and of our allies. Below we provide explanation to our position and we demand immed...

Another amendment (8th in lat 3 years) to the Act on the Supreme Court.

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Repeal of the judge`s immunity: After the amendment comes into force, the members of a special court - the Supreme Court Disciplinary Chamber, elected by the politicized National Council of Judiciary with the majority of former prosecutors with connections with the Minister of Justice - Prosecutor General, will decide upon the judges` arrested and prosecution. The repeal of the judge`s immunity will be the competence of the supreme Court Disciplinary Chamber in both instances – single judge ...