The National Board of Polish Judges Association “Iustitia” resolution on demanding the right disciplinary spokespersons to undertake explanatory actions.
Referring to the recent events and numerous media publications about the functioning of troll farm at the Ministry of Justice - a group of people under the leadership of the former Deputy Minister of Justice Łukasz Piebiak, whose aim was to create an organized hate campaign on long-term depreciation of other judges, including un...
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Report on the current situation in the judiciary in Poland - 22.09. 2019
Judges Krystian Markiewicz, Bartłomiej Starosta, Dorota Zabłudowska, Monika Frąckowiak, Katarzyna Kałwak, Monika Ciemięga refused to appear at the summons of disciplinary spokesmen for judges. The Association of Polish Judges "Iustitia" published their statements.
Judge Krystian Markiewicz: "As an independent judge, I decided not to appear today at the call of disciplinary spokesmen Schab, Lasota and R...
Considering the facts, that:
members of the National Council of the Judiciary (NCJ) were elected in violation of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland and European standards, by unacceptable shortening the term of office of judges – members of the Council (resulting in proceedings before the European Court of Human Rights) and political election of new members by members of the parliament from Law and Justice (PiS) and Kukiz'15 political parties. Soon after that Polish NCJ was suspende...
The European Court of Human Rights decided on 2 September 2019 to communicate1 to the
Government of Poland the application Xero Flor w Polsce sp. z o.o. v. Poland (application
no.4907/18), and requested that it submit observations.
The case concerns proceedings brought by the applicant company claiming compensation for
damage to its property, and its complaint about the appointment of one judge in particular to the
Constitutional Court which examined its case.
This is the second applicatio...