Legal opinion on a D eputy’s bill to amend the Act – Law on Common Courts Organization and the Act on the Complaint for Violation of the Right (...) Cover Image

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Legal opinion on a D eputy’s bill to amend the Act – Law on Common Courts Organization and the Act on the Complaint for Violation of the Right (...)

Author(s): Antoni Bojańczyk
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Kancelaria Sejmu
Keywords: Poland; Minister of Justice; bill; common court;

Summary/Abstract: The author claims that specific legal instruments in the so‑called external administrative supervision over the activities of the courts, which – according to the above‑mentioned bill – are to be granted to the Minister of Justice, do not enter into the realm of judicial independence, nor do they relate to the substance of the hearing of cases. Therefore, they are consistent with the constitutionally enshrined principle of judicial independence and the principle of division and balance between the legislative, executive and judicial powers

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 149–154
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Polish