In a judgment handed down on Thursday 5 February, the European Court of Human Rights condemned Poland for violations of the rights to access to a court (Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights), to private and family life (Article 8) and to freedom of expression (Article 10) in the ‘Morawiec’ case, which concerns a magistrate, president of the judges’ association, who publicly criticised the judicial reforms implemented in Poland in 2017.
This criticism led to the...