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‼ The president’s spokesman announced that Andrzej Duda had appointed Małgorzata Manowska as the first president of the Supreme Court.

New KRS and the Supreme Court
Małgorzata Manowska: in 2007 – deputy minister of justice in Zbigniew Ziobro’s ministry; later the Court of Appeal in Warsaw; since 2016, head of the National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution, appointed by Zbigniew Ziobro; since 2018, in the Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court recommended by the neo-NCJ. in parallel, she still heads the National School of Judiciary and Public Prosecution, although the former First President of the Supreme Court prof. Małgorzata Gersdorf obj...

Statement by 50 Supreme Court judges

New KRS and the Supreme Court
Warsaw, 23 May 2020 In recent days, we have been dealing with events in the Supreme Court whose formal objective was to select five candidates for the position of the First President of the Supreme Court. In fact, the aim was to include among the candidates a person who, prior to the General Assembly meeting, had already been decided by the decision-makers to hold this position. This is demonstrated by the following circumstances, in addition to the recent changes to the provisions of the Supre...

The Disciplinary Chamber of the Polish Supreme Court scheduled a hearing on June 9 regarding the waiver of immunity of judge Igor Tulea, despite the interim measure of the CJEU of April 8 (on suspension of the Disciplinary Chamber)

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APPEAL of the Polish Judges Association IUSTITIA over the elections of the candidates for the position of the First President of the Supreme Court

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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...

An Independent Supreme Court Will Survive in Each of Us - every common court in this country, every judge, will from today, be like the Supreme Court

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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...