Press releases after the hearing

• 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...

• SK 10/16, The right to receive a food parcel by persons deprived of liberty

  A request for a food parcel for a convicted person may be submitted – apart from the convicted person – only by a close person. On 19 December 2017 at 12.30 p.m.,...

• SK 29/16, Residential premises provided by authorities on the basis of an employment relationship – the acquisition of a legal title

  Although the complainant enjoys the constitutionally guaranteed protection against eviction “onto the street”, the proper act to regulate the said protection is not the Act on the Police but provisions pertaining to administrative proceedings on enforced debt collection.

• K 1/17, The Acts on the Constitutional Tribunal

  The Tribunal adjudicated that the challenged provisions of the Act of 13 December 2016 – the Introductory Provisions to the Act on the Organisation of the Constitutional Tribunal and the Mode of Proceedings Before the Constitutional Tribunal and to the Act on the Status of the Judges of the Tribunal are consistent with the Constitution. The Tribunal also stated that the challenged provision of the Act on the Status of the Judges of the Tribunal is consistent with the...

• K 3/17, The Act on the Supreme Court, insofar as it concerns the rules
  of procedure for selecting candidates for the position of the First President of the Supreme Court

  The resolution on the rules of procedure for selecting candidates for the position of the First President of the Supreme Court exceeds the admissible scope of the regulation of an internal legal act. The First President of the Supreme Court constitutes not only an internal authority of the Supreme Court but also an autonomous constitutional authority.

• K 27/15, Administrative proceedings on enforced debt collection; immovable property subject to enforced debt collection

  A situation where persons in difficult circumstances vacate a flat when there is no indication of another flat or room where they could move in, in other words eviction “onto the street”, may not be regarded as admissible in the light of respect for the dignity of the individual.

• Kp 4/15, Probation officers; legislative process

  The Marshal of the Sejm’s use of wording other than that arising from the parliamentary practice – when the Senate’s amendments to a statute were put to a vote – does not infringe the constitutional standards of the legislative process. By contrast, what constitutes a serious procedural breach is an erroneous interpretation of the outcome of the vote, as a result of which the amendments have not been taken into account in the text of a bill adopted by the Sejm and submitted for...

• SK 36/15, The terms of granting childcare allowances to supplement family benefits during the period of parental leave

  In the case where care is provided for more than one child born at one birth, one childcare allowance is granted and it is linked with a single right of a person who meets statutory requirements to receive a family benefit, which does not infringe the constitutional guarantee of the protection of the family.