{"id":1911,"date":"2021-08-12T19:54:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T17:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johan-callewaert.eu\/?p=1911"},"modified":"2022-02-11T21:44:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T20:44:16","slug":"disciplinary-chamber-of-the-polish-supreme-court-judgment-of-the-echr-in-reczkowicz-v-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johan-callewaert.eu\/de\/disciplinary-chamber-of-the-polish-supreme-court-judgment-of-the-echr-in-reczkowicz-v-poland\/","title":{"rendered":"Disciplinary Chamber of the Polish Supreme Court: judgment of the ECHR in Reczkowicz v. Poland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the case of <em>Reczkowicz v. Poland<\/em> (22.7.2021, 43447\/19), the ECHR found that the <strong>Disciplinary Chamber of the Polish Supreme Court <\/strong>had not been a \u201c<strong>tribunal established by law<\/strong>\u201d and had lacked <strong>impartiality <\/strong>and <strong>independence<\/strong>. After abundently referring to several international legal instruments, including the <strong>case-law of the CJEU<\/strong> on the recent reform of the judiciary in Poland (notably <a href=\"https:\/\/curia.europa.eu\/juris\/document\/document.jsf?text=&amp;docid=220770&amp;pageIndex=0&amp;doclang=EN&amp;mode=lst&amp;dir=&amp;occ=first&amp;part=1&amp;cid=1338575\">joined Cases C\u2011585\/18, C-624\/18, C-625\/18<\/a>), the ECHR stated inter alia:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The right to a fair trial under Article 6 \u00a7 1 of the Convention must be interpreted in the light of the Preamble to the Convention, which, in its relevant part, declares the rule of law to be part of the common heritage of the Contracting States. The right to \u201ca tribunal established by law\u201d is a reflection of this very principle of the rule of law and, as such, it plays an important role in upholding the separation of powers and the independence and legitimacy of the judiciary as required in a democratic society. \u2026 It is also to be reiterated that although the right to a \u201ctribunal established by law\u201d is a stand alone right under Article 6 \u00a7 1 of the Convention, there is a very close interrelationship between that specific right and the guarantees of \u201cindependence\u201d and \u201cimpartiality\u201d.<\/em> (\u00a7 260)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/johan-callewaert.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/RECZKOWICZ-v.-POLAND.pdf\">RECZKOWICZ-v.-POLAND<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/johan-callewaert.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/RECZKOWICZ-v.-POLAND.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download PDF<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the case of Reczkowicz v. Poland (22.7.2021, 43447\/19), the ECHR found that the Disciplinary Chamber of the Polish Supreme Court had not been a \u201ctribunal established by law\u201d and had lacked impartiality and independence. After abundently referring to several international legal instruments, including the case-law of the CJEU on the recent reform of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-european-court-of-human-rights","category-recent-case-law"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"de","enabled_languages":["en","de","fr"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"de":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"fr":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johan-callewaert.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johan-callewaert.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johan-callewaert.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johan-callewaert.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johan-callewaert.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johan-callewaert.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2107,"href":"https:\/\/johan-callewaert.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions\/2107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johan-callewaert.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johan-callewaert.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johan-callewaert.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}