NEWS

24/01/2020

09:00

Gowin:

I wouldn't call it a coup, but we are certainly dealing with a legal chaos caused by this resolution

Michał Olech

I wouldn't use the term 'coup d'état', but we are definitely dealing with a situation of legal chaos caused by this resolution [of the three chambers of the Supreme Court]. It is also very unclear. I'll say one good thing about it. The Supreme Court judges, or rather the fifty-something percent majority of Supreme Court judges, did not go so far as to annul rulings made by the new judges, with the exception of the Disciplinary Chamber, which I will return to later. But what does this mean? It means that a judge who yesterday issued a legal ruling, today will issue an illegal ruling. What's more, this resolution stipulates that these new judges can continue to conduct cases and issue rulings, as long as they commenced these cases before yesterday's resolution. In short: Supreme Court judges claim that a given judge is an 'illegal' judge because he was appointed by the National Judicial Council, whose legality the Supreme Court questions, but he can still issue rulings in the future, for example, in two years. This creates a completely unclear situation. Moreover, it seems that the question of whether the Supreme Court is not violating the principle of equality of citizens' rights is justified here- stated Jarosław Gowin in an interview with Marek Pyza on TVP1's "Political Quarter of an Hour".

Michał Olech