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...