Press releases after the hearing

• K 12/18, The election of members to the National Council of the Judiciary from among judges; an appeal against the said Council’s resolution on an appointment to the office of judge

  On 25 March 2019 at noon, the Constitutional Tribunal publicly delivered its ruling on joined applications filed by the National Council of the Judiciary and a group of Senators with regard to provisions on the appointment of members to the National Council of the Judiciary as well as the appellate procedure for appealing against the said Council’s resolution on an appointment to the office of judge.

• P 20/16, The acquisition of the right to the so-called early retirement prior to 1 January 2013 vs. the acquisition of the right to an old-age pension

  On 6 March 2019 at 10.00 a.m., the Constitutional Tribunal considered a question of law referred by the Circuit Court in Szczecin (the 6th Division – Labour and Social Insurance) with regard to the acquisition of the right to the so-called early retirement prior to 1 January 2013.

• K 1/18, Amendments to the Act on the Institute of National Remembrance

  On 17 January 2019 at 10.30 a.m., the Constitutional Tribunal publicly delivered its judgment, issued at a sitting in camera, with regard to the application of the President of the Republic of Poland, in which the Polish President requested the Tribunal to examine the constitutionality of certain amendments introduced into...

• P 19/17, The Competition and Consumer Protection Act

  On 16 January 2019 at 10.00 a.m., the Constitutional Tribunal considered a question of law referred by the Court of Appeal in Warsaw (the 6th Division – Civil Matters) with regard to the Competition and Consumer Protection Act.

• K 7/15, Pecuniary compensation for unused holiday time; rules for calculating the amount of the compensation

  On 30 October 2018 at 9 a.m., the Tribunal publicly delivered its judgment on the application filed by the Management Board of the Independent Police Trade Union with regard to the manner of determining the amount of pecuniary compensation for 1 day of unused holiday time or extra holiday time.

• SK 5/16, The lack of the possibility of appealing against a court’s decision which deprives an injured person of his/her status as a litigant

  On 3 October 2018 at 9.30 a.m., the Constitutional Tribunal publicly delivered its judgment concerning a constitutional complaint filed with regard to the deprivation of an injured person of his/her right to appeal against a court’s decision which takes away the injured person’s status as a subsidiary prosecutor acting beside a public prosecutor in a criminal trial.

• K 9/17, The Polish President’s act of pardon as a negative premiss causing the inadmissibility of: criminal proceedings, proceedings on misdemeanours, or criminal enforcement proceedings

  On 17 July 2018 at 9.00 a.m., the Constitutional Tribunal delivered its ruling on the Public Prosecutor-General’s application concerning the interpretation of constitutional terms provided by the Supreme Court and the Supreme Administrative Court on the basis of the meanings of terms included in statutory acts as well as the Polish President’s act of pardon as a negative premiss causing the inadmissibility of: criminal proceedings, proceedings on misdemeanours, or criminal enforcement...

• SK 3/17, The Civil Procedure Code

  On 11 July 2018 at 11.00 a.m., the Constitutional Tribunal considered Ms K.S.’s constitutional complaint pertaining to the legal effects of a cassation appeal submitted lacking certain core components in the context of civil proceedings.

• K 16/16, The Penal Code – differentiation with regard to the right to impose an aggregated penalty, depending on the moment when individual penalties or aggregated penalties become legally enforceable

  On 4 July 2018 at 10.00 a.m., the Constitutional Tribunal (full bench) considered the Ombudsman’s application concerning differentiation with regard to rules for administering an aggregated penalty on the basis of a consolidated judgment, depending on the date when penalties subject to aggregation become legally enforceable. The Constitutional Tribunal continued the hearing that had been adjourned on...

• K 47/14, The safety of major public events; the penalty of being banned from attending matches of a particular football club (a football club’s ban)

  On 19 June 2018 at 8.30 a.m., the Constitutional Tribunal publicly delivered its ruling on the Ombudsman’s application concerning the safety of major public events (the penalty of being banned from attending matches of a particular football club – a football club’s ban).

• SK 27/16, The exercise of the right of ownership by convicted persons serving prison sentences

  On 24 April 2018 at 10.00 a.m., the Constitutional Tribunal publicly delivered its ruling with regard to Mr D. K.’s constitutional complaint concerning the exercise of the right of ownership by convicted persons serving prison sentences.

• SK 37/15, The freedom of economic activity

  The exclusion of the jurisdiction of administrative courts with regard to decisions issued as part of the consideration of an objection submitted by an entrepreneur whose business is subject to an audit on the basis of the provisions of chapter 5 of the Act on the Freedom of Economic...