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The disciplinary chamber's role is to treat all citizen equally and not to apply separate measures to those who think of themselves as a special caste and regular citizens, said Poland's Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro in response to a new infringement procedure against Poland launched by the European Commission on Wednesday. (http://www.tvn24.pl) More: https://www.tvn24.pl/tvn24-news-in-english,157,m/polish-justice-minister-ziobro-comment-on-eu-infringement-procedure,924251.html,157,m/pol...

The Ordinary Meeting of Delegates of the SSP "Iustitia" indicates the following priorities in the Association's activities: 1. Involvement in the activities of the Social Codification Commission in the preparation of a real judicial reform based on the following principles: restoration of the National Council for the Judiciary in accordance with the Constitution of the Republic of Poland through the selection of judges by the judges in universal, equal, secret and direct elections,...

In August 2016 judge Alina Czubieniak of the District Court in Gorzow Wielkopolski, when hearing an appeal from a ruling ordering pre-trial detention of an intellectually disabled suspect who could not read and write, ruled that he should have had a defence attorney when his detention was being decided by the first instance court. Because the suspect had been denied a defence attorney in first instance proceedings (the attorney had been appointed only in time to appeal the pre-trial detention), ...