“There is a danger when politics enters the judiciary,” warned Judge Sławomir Jęksa in his summing up of his decision to accept the appeal of a woman who had been charged for using offensive language at a rally.
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Disciplinary proceedings
EU opens new infringement procedure against Poland over independence of judges (http://www.tvn24.pl)
The European Commission opened a new infringement procedure against Poland on Wednesday, saying a new disciplinary regime the right-wing government in Warsaw has introduced for judges dealt a blow to judicial independence. (http://www.tvn24.pl)
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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)
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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), ...
The judge of the District Court in Nowe Miasto Lubawskie, Michał Lasota, was appointed by the Minister of Justice-Prosecutor General Zbigniew Ziobro as the President of the District Court in Nowe Miasto Lubawskie in January 2018, and in June 2018 as the Deputy Disciplinary Spokesman of the Judges of Common Courts.
Since September 2018, he is member of the Team for the activities of the Minister of Justice in the disciplinary proceedings of judges and court assessors, chaired by Łukasz Piebiak...