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The Republic of Poland is currently plunged into electoral chaos. Last Sunday was a date of the Presidential election, which did not take place. Also in the Supreme Court the election of the candidates for the First President of the Supreme Court are going on. Actually the situation in the Supreme Court is difficult to be called election. Mr. dr hab. Kamil Zaradkiewicz, who has been subject to disciplinary action since July 2019. This did not worry President Andrzej Duda, who appointed Mr. Zara...

Dear Madam First President, Ladies and Gentlemen, The term of office of the current President, Professor Małgorzata Gersdorf, is coming to an end. We can already call this term historic because it was undoubtedly one of the most difficult in the more than 100-year history of the Supreme Court. Never before in the historay of the Polish judiciary has there been such an unpardonable, brutal attack on the Supreme Court by politicians of a ruling party and the Prosecutor's Office. It can only be...

In a few days the term of office of the First President of the Supreme Court Professor Małgorzata Gersdorf will end. The Supreme Court, independent and not subordinated to political influence, is one of the last national institutions supporting the trust in justice. An ordinary citizen`s trust, that there is someone able to defend his/her rights and freedoms without fearing the possible consequences. Today, we want to make it absolutely clear, that the situation, when the omnipotent prosecutor...

European Association of Judges Regional Group of the International Association of Judges A “Marshall Plan” for Rule of Law in Europe   We should be anticipating not merely all that commonly happens but all that is conceivably capable of happening, if we do not want to be overwhelmed and struck numb by rare events as if they were unprecedented ones. (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)   1. In the past weeks, the European judges have been confronted in multiple ways...