The suspension of Judge Chmielewski was unlawful.
On 7 February 2023 the Chamber of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court overturned the Disciplinary Chamber's January 2022 decision to indefinitely suspend Judge Chmielewski. The Chamber ruled that Judge Krzysztof Chmielewski of the Regional Court in Warsaw could not be suspended for implementing the judgments of the ECtHR and the CJEU. It therefore overturned the January 2022 decision of the illegal Disciplinary Chamber to suspend hi...
Response from the EU Justice Commissioner to the letter from the Judges' Associations.
EU Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders, replying to the Presidents of the Judges' Associations on behalf of the President of the European Commission, indicates that concerns about the independence of the NCJ in its current form have not been allayed, despite the fact that in a number of judgments the European Court of Human Rights has found the process of appointing judges to the Extraordinary and Public Acc...