Relacja między ustawowym testem niezawisłości i bezstronności sędziego a kodeksową procedurą jego wyłączenia (rzecz o nietrafności postanowień Sądu Najwyższego z dnia 14 października 2022 r., III KK 348/22, 22 marca 2023 r., II KK 600/22 i 2
The Relationship Between the Statutory Test of Judicial Independence and Impartiality and the Code-Based Procedure for Judicial Recusal (On the Incorrectness of the Supreme Court's Rulings of 14 October 2022, III KK 348/22, 22 March 2023, II KK

Summary/Abstract: A number of recent decisions of the Supreme Court indicate that the relationship between the new procedure of the so-called statutory test of a judge’s independence and impartiality in relation to the procedure of exclusion from a case provided for by the Code of Criminal Procedure is a significant problem. The article attempts to analyze the arguments formulated by individual panels of the Supreme Court, that would indicate that these procedures are competitive with each other and that the “impartiality test” partially derogates Article 41 § 1 of the Polish Code of Criminal Procedure. According to the author, the Supreme Court’s reasoning in analyzed decisions is erroneous. Two above-mentioned procedures are not mutually exclusive, the Supreme Court’s decisions were issued in violation of the nemo iudex in causa sua rule, and in isolation from the formal legal basis for leaving applications to exclude a judge without consideration.

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