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‚The European Commission has requested the Polish government pay €42 million towards fines incurred for not complying with an EU Court of Justice ruling, Polish RMF FM radio reported. Last July, the CJEU ruled that Poland must dismantle the Supreme Court’s Disciplinary Chamber, which the court said was illegal under EU law and allowed for […]

Since Russia!s aggression against Ukraine, the Polish government has been positioning itself in the international arena as a defender of freedom and democracy, while simultaneously, in the domestic arena, it has been further destroying the standards of democracy and the rule of law at an accelerated pace, continuing its actions aiming towards the „Putinisation” of […]

‚The reorganisation planned for January is to give the neo-judges full control over the Civil Chamber. Its result will be that old judges will lose the managerial positions of the divisions and neo-judges will take their place. The names in line for ‘promotion’ include Kamil Zaradkiewicz.’   ‚A reorganisation that will enable the managerial positions […]

‚Judge Maciej Rutkiewicz was suspended for a month for applying the CJEU judgment and the Supreme Court resolution. He was suspended by a nominee of Minister Ziobro. Rutkiewicz is the sixth judge in Poland suspended for applying EU law and in clear violation of the CJEU order.’ ‚Judge Maciej Rutkiewicz of the Elbląg District Court […]

‚The authorities will try to use the carrot-and-stick method: a stick for those judges who are fighting for the rule of law, and a carrot for those they try to persuade over to them,’ believes Judge Waldemar Żurek. We discuss scenarios of further changes in courts and judges’ reactions to them.’ ‚What are the judges […]

‚Judge Agnieszka Niklas-Bibik from Słupsk is the first Polish judge suspended for asking preliminary questions to the CJEU. She was also repressed for enforcing judgments of the ECtHR and the CJEU. The judge was suspended by the president of the Słupsk court, appointed by Zbigniew Ziobro.’ ‚Judge Agnieszka Niklas-Bibik was suspended for one month on […]

‚The EU high court penalized Poland for failing to comply with an order to suspend its controversial disciplinary mechanism for judges.’ ‚Poland was hit with a record-high daily fine of €1 million for not complying with an EU court order to suspend the country’s controversial disciplinary mechanism for judges, the bloc’s highest court announced on […]

‚The Constitutional Tribunal, headed by Julia Przyłębska, ruled that the CJEU’s interpretation of Articles 1 and 19 of the EU Treaty is incompatible with the Constitution. The Prime Minister used the Constitutional Tribunal to block judges from invoking CJEU judgments and to have a para-argument in the negotiations with the European Commission.’ ‚The Constitutional Tribunal […]

‚Disciplinary commissioner Piotr Schab suspended judge Piotr Gąciarek for a month for a declaration made a few days earlier in which Gąciarek refused to adjudicate in a bench with a judge promoted by the new, political National Council of the Judiciary. Gąciarek is the second judge recently suspended for refusing to adjudicate with a neo-judge in the performance of the July judgment […]

‚The Minister of Justice suspended Judge Adam Synakiewicz from Częstochowa for a month for challenging the status of neo-judges and implementing the judgments of the CJEU and ECtHR. Zbigniew Ziobro breached the CJEU judgment in this way, for which he may be criminally liable in the future.’ ‚Minister Zbigniew Ziobro suspended Judge Adam Synakiewicz from […]