When Defending the Rule of Law Serves Politics: The European Commission’s Report on Poland
The EC’s 2025 report on the rule of law in Poland The European Commission has published its latest report on the […]
The justice system
The National Council of the Judiciary announces that it will not serve persons usurping the function of Disciplinary Prosecutor for Judges of Courts of General Jurisdiction and his deputy
We recently reported how Adam Bodnar, the Minister of Justice, who is leaving the government, announced that he had appointed
European Commission: EU law does not prevent judges who are members of the National Council of the Judiciary from being elected by the Sejm. Is the narrative on ‘neo-judges’ collapsing?
In October 2022, the Supreme Court received a cassation appeal lodged by the Capital City of Warsaw in relation to
Polish Justice Minister Violates Law in Appointing Judges’ Disciplinary Prosecutor
In April this year, Minister of Justice Adam Bodnar dismissed the Disciplinary Prosecutor for Judges of Courts of General Jurisdiction
Minister Bodnar once again usurps the powers of the National Council of the Judiciary. President of the Regional Court in Warsaw allowed to adjudicate despite retirement?
In May this year, we reported on how the Ministry of Justice, led by Adam Bodnar, usurping powers that belong
The Ombudsman has once again spoken out in defence of the Constitutional Tribunal and the Extraordinary Review and Public Affairs Chamber of the Supreme Court
Yesterday (6 July 2025), an interview with the Ombudsman, Professor Marcin Wiącek, was published, in which he clearly pointed to
The National Council of the Judiciary calls on Minister Bodnar to cease actions restricting citizens’ right to a court hearing!
At the beginning of last week, we reported on an interview given by Minister of Justice Adam Bodnar shortly after
The Ministry is clinging to its own narrative about the possibility of dismissing disciplinary spokespeople despite the lack of legal grounds. A bizarre letter to court presidents.
In April this year, we reported on how the Ministry of Justice, led by Adam Bodnar, attempted to dismiss Judge
Minister Bodnar’s sudden volte-face – will the current Sejm majority elect judges to the National Council of the Judiciary?
On 4 June 2025, Minister of Justice Adam Bodnar gave an interview to businessinsider.com.pl, in which he referred generally to
Minister Bodnar is once again interfering in the justice system without legal grounds.
At its meeting on 21 May 2025, the National Council of the Judiciary (a constitutional body whose purpose is to
The Supreme Court Collegium issued a resolution on the public activities of judges that are incompatible with the principle of their independence
Judges who do not hide their political sympathies for Donald Tusk’s government sit on the codification committee at the Ministry
The Constitutional Tribunal ruled that depriving the Constitutional Tribunal and the National Council of the Judiciary of budgetary funds is unconstitutional!
Since March 2024, Donald Tusk’s government has refused to recognise the rulings of the Constitutional Tribunal concerning the constitutional rights
They called on the President to dismiss Bodnar. Happening organised by the association ‘Judges of the Republic of Poland’
Representatives of the National Association of Judges ‘Judges of the Republic of Poland’, together with representatives of the Association ‘Lawyers
The draft bill proposed by Minister Bodnar and Deputy Minister Mazur provides for the dismissal of judges by virtue of law
On 24 April 2025, the Ministry of Justice presented a draft bill on ‘restoring constitutional order in the judiciary’. The
CJEU Advocate General – judges appointed at the request of the National Council of the Judiciary since 2018 are judges!
Less than three weeks ago, the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union proposed that Polish