On Friday 1 August, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that the temporary double appointment of judges to different chambers of the Polish Supreme Court does not contravene the requirements of independence and impartiality laid down by EU law (joined cases C-422/23, C-455/23, C-459/23, C-486/23 and C-493/23).
A number of questions were referred to the CJEU for a preliminary ruling on the legitimacy of the composition of the panels of judges within the Civil Chamber, which...