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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12806

7 October 2021
Contents Publication in full By article 19 / 32
COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU / Poland
Decisions to transfer judges without their consent must provide necessary safeguards and remedies or principle of independence will be jeopardised, says EU Court of Justice
Brussels, 06/10/2021 (Agence Europe)

On Wednesday 6 October, the Court of Justice of the EU handed down a new judgment on the state of the judiciary in Poland and considered this time that non-consensual transfers of a judge to another court or between two divisions of the same court “are likely to undermine the principles of irremovability and independence of judges”.

The case concerns a judge of a Polish regional court who was transferred in August 2018 to another division, a decision he had challenged before the National...

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