On Tuesday 22 March, the Court of Justice of the European Union had to declare inadmissible the request for a preliminary ruling from a Polish court (Case C-508/19) as to whether it has the power under EU law, which it does not have under Polish law, to find that a judge’s employment relationship is non-existent due to defects in their appointment.
In doing so, it dismissed the court’s application concerning a Polish judge who was subject to disciplinary proceedings and who challenged...