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Poland should restore necessary guarantees for independence of judges and prosecutors, prevent regression on women’s rights and combat gender stereotypes - Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović

News
Modern European democracies cannot function without truly independent judiciaries. Poland’s authorities should take further steps to restore full independence of the judiciary and act to resolve discord and deadlock that continue to affect the functioning and the credibility of some of the judicial institutions. Judges and prosecutors must be shielded from undue pressure,” said the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović ...

Legal opinion on the consequences of the defectiveness of the proceedings on the nomination of judges to the Supreme Court in the context of the effectiveness of their appointment

Opinions
This legal opinion applies to the assessment of compliance of the procedure of appointing judges to the Supreme Court with the Constitution of the Republic of Poland of 2 April 1997 [hereinafter: Constitution]. The starting point of the analyses conducted in this opinion is Article 179 of the Constitution, according to which judges are appointed for an indefinite term of office by the President of the Republic of Poland on the motion of the National Council of the Judiciary (NCJ). This formula u...

IUSTITIA’s resolution in the matter of judges’ protests in Romania.

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Polish Judges Association IUSTITIA would like to express its solidarity with Romanian judges, who oppose to the changes in Romanian judicial system that infringe judicial independence. Our Romanian’s colleagues protest was organised in a legitimate interest of defending the basic legal frameworks of the judiciary. Recent legislative solutions adopted by Romanian legislative authority pose an imminent threat to the judicial independence and consequently civil rights and freedoms. Therefore, ...

EU to Take Action Against Poland if Judges Harassed for Consulting ECJ (New York Times)

Disciplinary proceedings

NY Times list do Timermansa 2019

Disciplinary Spokesman`s Deputy judge Lasota is looking for disciplinary offence in Gorzów Wlkp.

Disciplinary proceedings
The judge of the District Court in Nowe Miasto Lubawskie, Michał Lasota, was appointed by the Minister of Justice-Prosecutor General Zbigniew Ziobro as the President of the District Court in Nowe Miasto Lubawskie in January 2018, and in June 2018 as the Deputy Disciplinary Spokesman of the Judges of Common Courts. Since September 2018, he is member of the Team for the activities of the Minister of Justice in the disciplinary proceedings of judges and court assessors, chaired by Łukasz Piebiak...