Press releases after the hearing

• P 13/19, The exclusion of a Supreme Court judge from the examination of a case

  On 2 June 2020 at 11.00 a.m., the Constitutional Tribunal publicly delivered its judgment with regard to the question of law referred by the Supreme Court, which concerned a motion to exclude a judge from the examination of a case, due to an allegation raised about the defective appointment of the judge by the President of the Republic, who acted upon the request of the National Council of the Judiciary.

• P 2/18, The exclusion of a limitation period for the recovery of insurance premium receivables secured by a mortgage

  The exclusion of a limitation period for the recovery of social insurance premium receivables secured by a mortgage does not violate the principle of the equal protection of ownership and other property rights. On 20 May 2020 at 10.00, the Constitutional Tribunal delivered its ruling on the question of law, referred by the Circuit Court in Gliwice (the 8th Division – Labour and Social Insurance), pertaining to the exclusion of a limitation period for the recovery of insurance premium...

• P 19/16, The exclusion of the application of provisions on court costs in electronic writ-of-payment proceedings (parties deprived of the right to request exemption from court costs)

  On 29 April 2020 the Constitutional Tribunal delivered its ruling on the question of law, referred by the Circuit Court in Lublin (2nd Civil Division – the appellate instance), pertaining to the exclusion of the application of provisions on court costs in electronic writ-of-payment proceedings, as a result of which parties to those proceedings are deprived of the right to request exemption from court costs (case ref. no. P 19/16).

• P 22/19, A motion to exclude a judge from the examination of a case, due to an allegation raised about the defective appointment of the judge by the President of the Republic, who acted upon the request of the National Council of the Judiciary

  On 4 March 2020 at 11:30 a.m., the Constitutional Tribunal publicly delivered its judgment with regard to the question of law referred by the Supreme Court, the Disciplinary Chamber, which concerned a motion to exclude a judge from the examination of a case, due to an allegation raised about the defective appointment of the judge by the President of the Republic, who acted upon the request of the National Council of the Judiciary.

• K 14/17, Aggregated penalties; the Polish Penal Code

  On 18 April 2019 at 9 a.m., the Constitutional Tribunal considered the Polish Ombudsman’s application concerning aggregated penalties (the Penal Code).

• 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...