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“There was agreement across the table that this white paper is not the answer to the Commission’s recommendations,” Timmermans told a news conference after the meeting, adding that EU ministers would discuss the matter again next month. “If this idea that you have the right to reform the judiciary… is understood as the right to put it under political control, then we have a problem.” http://eptoday.com/eu-executive-dismisses-polands-defense-of-contested-judicial-overhaul/...

The Minister of Justice, Zbigniew Ziobro, exercising his extraordinary powers given to him by virtue of Art. 17 (1) of the Act of 12 July 2017 on amending the Act on the Organisation of Ordinary Courts, dismissed 131 court presidents and vice presidents before the end of their term of office set in the statute. In many cases these decisions were strongly criticised by the bodies of judicial self-government because they lacked substantive justification or because the justification provided conta...

The most frequent and the most typical practices of court management which may easily lead to violation of independence have provided the basis for compiling, by contrast, “A Collection of Good Management Practices” . The last four items represent the most blatant examples of interfering with independence. The collection is a result of the work of the Forum for the Cooperation of Judges. Judges Cooperation Forum and have been sent to the National Council for the Judiciary (NCJ) for considera...

Assembly of Representatives of Judges of the Regional Court in Łódź : 1.joins the appeals calling on the European Commission to send the Act on the Supreme Court to the Court of Justice of the European Union together with the motion to suspend the implementation of the Act; 2.acknowledges amendments introduced to the Act on the System of Common Courts, the Act on the National Council of the Judiciary, the Act on the Supreme Court and the Act on the Constitutional Tribunal by acts of 12 Apri...