Opponents see bills as an erosion of judicial independence under populist Law and Justice partyThe Polish parliament has approved government proposals to hand the ruling Law and Justice party (Pis) effective control of judicial appointments and the supreme court,in a whisk seen by critics as an erosion of judicial independence.
The government describes the plans as a essential means to speed up the process of issuing judgments and to break what it describes as the grip of a “privileged caste” of lawyers and judges. But a coalition of civil society groups warned that Poland will “definitively cease to be a democratic state of law” once the legislation is approved by the senate and the president, and becomes law.
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Source: guardian.co.uk