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Disciplinary proceedings

Open Letter to the President of the European Commission regarding Poland’s disciplinary regime for judges and the urgent need for interim measures in Commission v Poland (C-791/19)

Ever since the European Commission initiated a third infringement procedure in respect to the recurrent attacks on the rule of law by Polish authorities last April, the situation has continued to seriously deteriorate. We have now reached the unprecedented and frightening stage where Polish judges are being subject to harassment tactics in the form of multiple arbitrary disciplinary investigations, formal disciplinary proceedings and/or sanctions for applying EU law as interpreted by the ECJ or ...

Commissioner for Human Rights Concerned by 55 disciplinary actions against judge K. Markiewicz & suspension of district judge Juszczyszyn.

https://twitter.com/CommissionerHR/status/1202277638359920640 https://rm.coe.int/report-on-the-visit-to-poland-from-11-to-15-march-2019-by-dunja-mijato/168094d848 48. The Commissioner was alsoconcerned by the numerous reports she received of disciplinary proceedings being instituted against judges and prosecutors formatters such as: speaking out in public on the topic of the government’s reform of the justice system; requesting preliminary rulings by the Court of Justice of the European Unio...

The position of the National Board of Polish Judges Association "Iustitia" on the statement of the Disciplinary Spokesman of the Judges of Common Courts

On November 8, 2019, Przemysław Radzik - Deputy Disciplinary Spokesman of the Judges of the Common Courts brought disciplinary charges against the judges: Krystian Markiewicz, Monika Ciemięga, Monika Frąckowiak, Katarzyna Kałwak and Bartłomiej Starosta in connection with the alleged misconduct of the dignity of the judicial office according to the Spokesman in a way of ignoring the statutory obligation of these judges to attend the summons and testify as witnesses and other disciplinary tor...

Statement of the Disciplinary Officer for the Judges of Common Courts

In reference to the statement of October 25, 2019, I would like to inform, that based on the findings of explanatory actions resulting from justified suspicion of disciplinary offenses committed by several judges, including the conscious ignoring the statutory obligation to appear on summons and to testify as witnesses as well as other disciplinary torts, the Deputy Disciplinary Officer for the Judges of Common Courts, judge Przemysław W. Radzik, by decisions of November 8, 2019, initiated disc...

Does the Minister of Justice - Prosecutor General Zbigniew Ziobro intend to prosecute the Supreme Court judges for adopting a legal interpretation in their judgment?

"Prosecutor Krzysztof Parchimowicz is summoned by investigators from Bialystok, first they wanted him to give testimonies, in which he would provide the evidence of guilt for himself, now he is summoned again to give testimony, which can be used for an unprecedented accusation of the judges of the Supreme Court for the verdicts they had given." "In this case Parchimowicz has already testified before the Parliamentary VAT Investigation Commission, he admitted that he was recommend...

Does the Minister of Justice - Prosecutor General Zbigniew Ziobro intend to prosecute the Supreme Court judges for adopting a legal interpretation in their judgment?

29/07/2019 "Prosecutor Krzysztof Parchimowicz is summoned by investigators from Bialystok, first they wanted him to give testimonies, in which he would provide the evidence of guilt for himself, now he is summoned again to give testimony, which can be used for an unprecedented accusation of the judges of the Supreme Court for the verdicts they had given." "In this case Parchimowicz has already testified before the Parliamentary VAT Investigation Commission, he admitted that he w...