Jakub Jaraczewski
The situation may take years to resolve.

Jakub Jaraczewski
The situation may take years to resolve.
The current government plans to appeal against the ruling, for which it blames the former administration.
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The ruling – which is the first of its kind in Poland – is seen as a landmark in a country that is ranked as the EU’s worst for LGBT people.
Małgorzata Gersdorf, who led the Supreme Court from 2014 to 2020, has been a prominent critic of the government’s overhaul of the judiciary.
“Judge Igor Tuleya did not commit any crime” and prosecutors’ complaint against him was “clearly groundless”, found the Supreme Court.
There are “fundamental legal obstacles preventing our participation in cases involving persons appointed…in a defective procedure”.
“I get the impression that this is not about the rule of law,” said Małgorzata Manowska.
The opposition warns that the chamber will simply be replaced by another that serves a similar purpose.
Some experts say that, without the amendments, the law will not fulfil the milestones agreed with the EU.
“Only the name” of the National Council of the Judiciary remains the same as before.
“People who work as journalists have a unique legitimacy to be in places where important events take place,” said the judges.
The court said two judges were denied their right to a fair hearing after being rejected for a job.
She was awarded compensation after facing bullying for removing a Christian cross from the school staff room.
There are concerns relating to the government’s contested judicial reforms.