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Suspended judge files complaint with all regional courts in Poland

Poland's Disciplinary Chamber, a section of the Supreme Court, suspended Paweł Juszczyszyn (pictured) in February 2020 and cut his remuneration by 40 percent, for questioning the government's overhaul of the judicial system.
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A Polish judge who has been suspended by a contested disciplinary court, has filed complaints with all 46 regional courts in Poland to get his suspension, which he regards as illegal, lifted.

Poland’s Disciplinary Chamber, a section of the Supreme Court, suspended Paweł Juszczyszyn in February 2020 and cut his remuneration by 40 percent, for questioning the government’s overhaul of the judicial system.

In January last year, the Supreme Court ruled that the Disciplinary Chamber was not a court under EU law, and in April the Court of Justice of the European Union ordered Poland to suspend the chamber.

In his complaint, Juszczyszyn demands to be reinstated as a judge at a district court in Olsztyn, north-eastern Poland, and seeks a ruling that would force the court’s president to allow him to return to work.

Explaining the reason for filing the complaint with all the regional courts in Poland, Juszczyszyn’s lawyer, Michał Romanowski said that the breach of law against Juszczyszyn took place in the media, so no single regional court had jurisdiction over the case.

“Judges from all regional courts in Poland who may face the same fate as Judge Juszczyszyn, will have the grounds and the duty to rule whether they consider the Supreme Court’s Disciplinary Chamber an independent and impartial court,” Romanowski said.

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