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Polish Tribunal Rules ECtHR Cannot Question its Judges
December 01, 2021
Poland's Constitutional Tribunal, rejecting a ruling by Europe's top human rights court in May, said that the European Court of Human Rights had no power to question its appointment of judges.
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ECtHR Condemns Turkey over Arrests of Judges and Prosecutors Post-Coup
November 23, 2021
427 members of the Turkish judiciary who were arrested after a failed coup in 2016 will be awarded 5,000 euros in damages following the ruling of the The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) which states that Turkey had acted unlawfully by arresting the judges and prosecutors.
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Politico: ECJ Rules against Hungary in Judicial Rule-of-Law Case
November 23, 2021
Rule-of-law is once again front and center as the the EU’s Court of Justice ruled that Hungary’s supreme court had improperly interfered with and disciplined a lower court judge, highlighting the subject of whether or not Hungarian judges can freely submit questions to EU’s highest court.
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Politico: Macron Edging away from Europe
November 18, 2021
Following the Polish constitutional court’s decision to reject the primacy of the Court of Justice of the European Union, the debate has been reopened in France and many French presidential contenders, both right and left, have sided with Warsaw, calling for France to assert the primacy of its own constitution, or even its own individual laws, over European legislation.
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ECJ: Polish Rules on Appointing Judges Violate EU Law
November 17, 2021
The legal battles continued this week between the EU and Poland over whose law has primacy when the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that the ability of the Polish government to appoint and remove judges from trials is in violation of EU law.
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