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Full-blown constitutional coup d’état in Poland (Verfassungsblog.de, prof. Tomasz Koncewicz)

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The Court is dead, long live the courts? On judicial review in Poland in 2017 and „judicial space” beyond How should Polish judges respond, now that the Constitutional Court is being used in the day-to-day politics, and keeps delivering goods for its political masters? We have to be unequivocal here. Any future decisions taken by the „fake Court” with the “fake” judges sitting on the cases will be marred by invalidity. The ordinary judges will have a valid claim not to follow ...

Changes to National Judiciary Council in a Nutshell

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National Judiciary Council (NJC) has been established by the act of December 20t, 1989 in the result of the project prepared by Solidarity (anticommunist opposition) lawyers. Based on the best practices of free European countries, the objective of NJC was to protect the independence of courts and judges – a feature of the judicial system unknown to the communist regime. -NJC was entrusted with nominations of judges, participation in the nominations of courts presidents and strengthening/p...

Prominent critic of Law and Justice Party denounces “assault on the rule of law in Poland” as “out of a political thriller”

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“The rule of law in Poland became a smokescreen for shady interests rather than the disinterested expression of an ideal.” The moves to undermine the rule of law came to a head in June last year, when Parliament passed a bill which gave politicians full control over the appointment and promotion of judges. Huge street protests followed this “attack on the separation of powers”, yet President Duda, who did in fact veto the legislation, proceeded to engage in a power struggle with the La...

High Court extradition refusal a ‘nuclear bomb’ in battle for independent judiciary in Poland

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On Monday, Ms Justice Aileen Donnelly halted an extradition case involving Polish man Artur Celmer, sought in his homeland on drug-trafficking charges, to seek guidance from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg. Justice Donnelly said “immense” legislative changes to Poland’s judicial system called into question the mutual trust that forms the basis of the European Arrest Warrant system. This is extremely significant because this is the very first case of this type in the h...

High Court Justice Kazimierz Zawada

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Born February 8, 1951 in Mędrzechów/Mędrzechowo. He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University in 1973. After a three-year legal training he passed the judge exam. In 1982 he received a PhD an 1990 a habilitation in civil law. Since 2001 he is a full professor. Currently employed as a researcher and teacher at the department of Private International Law at his alma mater. He gives lectures on law of bills of exchange. Professor Kazimierz Zawada is Hig...