CJEU: The Germans are allowed, the Poles quite to the contrary!

by user | Jan 26, 2024 | Status of the National Council for the Judiciary

“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...

Judges of a worse category

by user | Jan 26, 2024 | Status of the National Council for the Judiciary

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...

Accession to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office will limit Poland’s sovereignty

by user | Jan 26, 2024 | Actions of the Minister of Justice

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...

Problems for ‘liquidators’ of media companies

by user | Jan 26, 2024 | Public media

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...

A gesture of reconciliation from the Supreme Court’s Extraordinary Audit and Public Affairs Chamber

by user | Jan 26, 2024 | Extinguishing parliamentary mandates

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’...