We are an independent, apolitical and self-governing association of Polish judges.
Our main mission is to defend freedom and civil rights, which are the democratic foundations of Poland - a member of the the European Union.
We have been operating for more than 25 years, also as part of different international organisations of judges. We associate over 3,500 judges, most of them in Poland.

We shall fix the foundations of the courts, we shall save millions of Euros

“We pay 1 million EUR a day for the Zbigniew Ziobro`s (Minister of Justice)  political monsters. It cannot last longer, we know how to prevent these penalties from occurring "- says the president of Iustitia, prof. Krystian Markiewicz. “The scale of damage caused by Zbigniew Ziobro's team is huge, the courts are currently a ruined building. We have to start building from solid foundations, because we are building for future generations who are entitled to a just state, where everyone ...

Polish Judges' appeal in the mater of the enforcement of European tribunals' judgments and the judicial appointment system

We, the judges of the Republic of Poland and also European judges, declare that we will abide by the judgments of European tribunals and uphold European values.  Judgments of the ECtHR (Reczkowicz vs. Poland) and the CJEU and judgments issued by Polish courts based on them, including judgments of the Supreme Administrative Court of 6 May 2021 in the following cases: II GOK 2/18, II GOK 3/18, II GOK 5/18,  II GOK 6/18, II GOK 7/18 and of September 21, 2021 confirmed the defectiveness of the ju...

The politicized NCJ must cease to exist, otherwise we will face more and more chaos

After today's CJEU's  judgment (C-487/19): The politicized NCJ must cease to exist, otherwise we will face more and more chaos  10/06/2021  In today's judgment, the CJEU answered the question referred for a preliminary ruling by the Supreme Court, which asked the Court of Justice to find out whether gross violations of the law in the appointment of judges to new Supreme Court's chambers exclude persons so appointed from the adjudicating.  Specifically, it was about recognizing one of the s...

Statement by the judges of the Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court explaining the reason for leaving the assembly convened by Małgorzata Manowska to elect the president of the Civil Chamber.

The Assembly of Judges of the Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court aimed at election of candidates for President of the Supreme Court managing the works of the Civil Chamber has been properly summoned for 29 June 2021 and on this date the Assembly adopted a resolution to adjourn the election Assembly until the end of proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union in cases C-791/19, C-487/19 i C-508/19, where only one of those cases (C-791/19) was finalized with the judgement of 15 J...

A letter of the European Association of Judges to President of the Commission of the European Union

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Letter of Polish Judges Association IUSTITIA

Warsaw, 1st of October 2020. To the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen the Vice President of the European Commission Viera Jourova the European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders Dear President von der Leyen, Dear Vice President Jourova, Dear Commissioner Reynders, the Board of the Association of Polish Judges IUSTITIA assures you of the highest respect for the actions taken so far by the European Commission to defend the rule of law in Poland. Out of co...