“CJEU case law review”, or how Polish judges appointed after 2018 by the President of the Republic of Poland at the request of the NCJ are not impartial and independent in the view of the CJEU and therefore are not a European “court”, while German judges appointed and dependent on the Minister of Justice, quite […]
CJEU: The Germans are allowed, the Poles quite to the contrary! Read More »
The draft Law changing the Law on the National Council for the Judiciary of Jan 11, 2024, proposed by the Minister of Justice Adam Bodnar, provides that judges appointed after 2018 are to remain “judges”. However, they will not be able to run in elections to the National Council of the Judiciary or to nominate
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The first decision of Minister Adam Bodnar was to send a request to Prime Minister Donald Tusk for Poland’s urgent accession to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office. Why was this done before the European Council summit and what consequences will this have for the Poles? And above all: what is this European Public Prosecutor’s Office,
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What does Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz’s toying with media companies mean in practice? What are the responsibilities of the designated ‘liquidators’ of the companies and what might be the consequences for them of the ‘tidying up’ of the media companies in connection with the invalid resolution of the Minister of Culture? The state of affairs as of
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In the formula for the presidential pardon, we read the words “we forgive and forget”. Naturally, this refers to the act itself and not to a specific sentence. After all, the act of clemency does not consist of ‘forgiving’ and ‘forgeting’ the judge who issued the sentence, but ‘forgiving’ the perpetrator and ‘forgeting’ his entire
“Ignorance of the law (on prosecution) harms”, or how Adam Bodnar, by his own actions deprived himself of his mandate of a senator of the Republic of Poland by attempting to “arrest” the files of prosecution cases concerning public media companies, which is confirmed not only by the current Deputy Minister of Justice Arkadiusz Myrcha,
Non-senator Adam Bodnar? Read More »
Since the “independent” and “objective” OKO.press has published material claiming that Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz did everything according to the law when trying to take over TVP, it is worth explaining why the opinion of attorneys A. Kappes and T. Siemiątkowski’s is detached from reality and directly contradicts the 2016 Constitutional Tribunal ruling. The title speaks for
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“The liquidation of Telewizja Polska”, which in practice did not occur, or why the resolution passed singlehandedly by Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz is null and void because it grossly violates the law and was aimed at circumventing the law. There are probably no more doubts that the original plan to seize control over the public media ended
How Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz liquidated (not!) the Polish Television (Telewizja Polska) Read More »
Various circles associated with the current ruling coalition are attempting to challenge the status of the National Judiciary Council, as part of a broader campaign to allegedly “restore the rule of law”. The result of these efforts is a resolution adopted by the Sejm on December 20, 2023, stating that the Sejm’s resolutions from March 2018
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In 2017, the then ruling United Right government introduced into Polish courts the institution of “coordinators for international cooperation and human rights” in criminal and civil cases. The justification for the amendment stressed that this was done “in order to improve the practice of exchanging information and experience regarding international cooperation and human rights”. Meanwhile, Poland’s new
