Press releases after the hearing

• P 2/16, The terms of granting old-age pension benefits in the old and new social insurance systems

  The introduction of a more beneficial way of calculating non-contributory periods in the case of persons born after 31 December 1948 does not infringe the principle of equality.

• K 10/17, The Civil Procedure Code – evaluating the correctness of the election process with regard to a judge of the Tribunal, the President of the Tribunal and the Vice-President of the Tribunal

  On 11 September 2017, at 8.30 a.m., the Constitutional Tribunal publicly delivered its ruling, issued at a sitting in camera, as to an application about evaluating the correctness of the procedure for electing a judge of the Tribunal as well as appointing the President and Vice-President of the Tribunal, lodged by a group of Sejm Deputies.

• SK 35/15, The terms of determining rates for the services of advocates as well as the State Treasury’s payment of the costs of unpaid court-appointed legal representation

  On 21 June 2017 at 9.00 a.m., the Constitutional Tribunal publicly delivered its ruling, issued at a sitting in camera, with relation to the constitutional complaint lodged by Ms B. K.-A. with regard to the terms of determining rates for the services of advocates as well as the State Treasury’s payment of the costs of unpaid court-appointed legal representation.

• P 124/15, The admissibility of both criminal liability and an administrative-law sanction for the same individual in the context of the same offence

  On 20 June 2017 at 3 p.m., the Constitutional Tribunal publicly delivered its ruling, issued at a sitting in camera, with reference to a question of law, referred by the District Court in Głubczyce (2nd Division – Criminal Matters), pertaining to the admissibility of both criminal liability and an administrative-law sanction for the same individual in the context of the same offence.

• K 5/17, The Act on the National Council of the Judiciary

  On 20 June 2017 at 12.30 p.m., the Constitutional Tribunal considered an application filed by the Public Prosecutor-General with regard to the way of regulating the procedure for electing judges to be members of the National Council of the Judiciary as well as shaping the provisions on the terms of office of elected members of the said Council in the Act on the National Council of the Judiciary.

• K 16/15, The terms of issuing certificates for renewable energy installers

  On 19 January 2017 at 9 a.m., the Constitutional Tribunal considered the Ombudsman’s application concerning rules for issuing certificates for renewable energy installers.

• U 3/17, The establishment of the communes of Szczawa and Grabówka

  On 1 June 2017 at noon, the Constitutional Tribunal publicly delivered its ruling, issued at a sitting in camera, with regard to the application of a group of Sejm Deputies concerning the establishment of the communes of Szczawa and Grabówka.

• SK 49/13, Resolutions issued by a water management company;
  the determination of the invalidity of such a resolution

  On 12 May 2017 at 9 a.m., the Constitutional Tribunal considered a constitutional complaint submitted by Falubaz Polska S.A. S.K.A., a company with its registered office in Zielona Góra in Poland, with regard to resolutions issued by water management companies (the determination of the invalidity of such a resolution).

• P 34/15, Rehabilitation benefits

  On 25 April 2017 at 14 p.m., the Constitutional Tribunal publicly delivered its ruling, issued at a sitting in camera, on the question of law referred by the District Court in Gliwice (the 6th Division – Labour and Social Insurance) with regard to rehabilitation benefits.

• K 10/15, Referendum; legal means in referendum campaigns;
  the right to a fair trial

  On 20 April 2017 at noon, the Constitutional Tribunal publicly delivered a ruling, issued at a sitting in camera, with regard to the Ombudsman’s application concerning legal means in referendum campaigns (the right to a fair trial).

• SK 3/16, Terms of suspending the limitation period for prosecuting lesser offences subject to private prosecution

  Terms of suspending the limitation period for prosecuting lesser offences subject to private prosecution ‘Provided in Article 101(2) of the Penal Code, a one-year...

• P 56/14, Exemption from legal costs, and court-appointed legal representation

  On 4 April 2017, at 11 a.m., the Constitutional Tribunal publicly delivered a ruling, issued at a sitting in camera, on a question of law referred by the District Court for the Capital City of Warsaw (the 15th Division – Economic Matters) with regard to exemption from legal costs and court-appointed legal representation.