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Professor of Law, Dean of @UCDLawSchool, co-director @goodlobbyprofs, senior research fellow @CEUDemInst. Usual disclaimers.

Nov 16, 2021, 23 tweets

Considering inexorably increasing no of ECJ/ECtHR cases connected to #Poland's #RuleofLaw breakdown, have decided to attempt to emulate @rdanielkelemen's Brexit reality 🧵 & create 🧵 to chronologically lists all ECJ/ECtHR judgments (& most ECJ orders). Hope not to reach 1k... ⬇️

1/ 20 November 2017: ECJ (second) order in Case C-441/17 Commission v Poland (Białowieża Forest)
If you would like to know why I consider this ECJ order dealing with environmental law as key starting point of ECJ's 🇵🇱 related rule of law case law, see sieps.se/en/publication…

2/ 25 July 2018: ECJ judgment in Case C 216/18 LM (Deficiencies in the Polish system of justice)

For further analysis, see e.g. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

3/ 19 October 2018: ECJ VP (provisional) order in Case C-619/18 Commission v Poland (Independence of Supreme Court)

For further analysis and references, see e.g. sieps.se/en/publication…

4/ 17 December 2018: ECJ (final) order in Case C-619/18 Commission v Poland (Independence of Supreme Court)

For further analysis and references, see also sieps.se/en/publication…

5/ 24 June 2019: ECJ judgment in Case C-619/18 Commission v Poland (Independence of Supreme Court)

For further analysis, see in particular kluwerlawonline.com/journalarticle…
and
cambridge.org/core/journals/…

6/ 5 November 2019: ECJ judgment in Case C-192/18 Commission v Poland (Independence of ordinary courts)

For further analysis and references, see sieps.se/en/publication…
and a more concise analysis, see e.g.
dcubrexitinstitute.eu/2019/11/the-in…

7/ 19 November 2019: ECJ judgment in Joined Cases C-585/18, C-624/18 and C-625/18 AK (Independence of the Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court)

For further analysis and references, see sieps.se/en/publication…

8/ 26 March 2020: ECJ judgment in Joined Cases C-558/18 and C-563/18 Miasto Łowicz and Prokurator Generalny (Disciplinary regime of judges)

For further analysis and references, see sieps.se/en/publication…

9/ 8 April 2020: ECJ order in Case C-791/19 Commission v Poland (Protecting Polish Judges from Political Control).

In addition to source above, see my detailed analysis in the @CMLRev here: kluwerlawonline.com/journalarticle…

10/ 17 December 2020: ECJ judgment in Joined Cases C-354/20 and C-412/20 L and P (Independence of the Polish issuing judicial authority)

In addition to @SIEPS_Sweden casebook linked above, for a shorter take, see @Verfassungsblog post with @Patryk_1234567 verfassungsblog.de/1825-days-late…

11/ 2 March 2021: ECJ judgment in C-824/18 AB and Others (Appointment of judges to the Supreme Court – Actions).

For further analysis and references, see @SIEPS_Sweden casebook sieps.se/en/publication…

12/ 7 May 2021: ECtHR judgment in the case of Xero Flor w Polsce sp. z o.o. v. Poland (Irregular composition of Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal)

For further analysis, see i.a. verfassungsblog.de/the-ecthr-step…
and verfassungsblog.de/what-should-an…

13/ 29 June 2021: ECtHR judgment in the case of Broda and Bojara v. Poland (Premature and arbitrary removal of two vice-presidents of a Polish regional court)

For further analysis, see verfassungsblog.de/too-little-too…

14/ 14 July 2021: ECJ VP (first) order in Case C-204/21 Commission v Poland (Safeguarding the Independence of Polish Judges post ‘Muzzle Law’)

For further analysis and references, see @SIEPS_Sweden casebook co-authored with @ProfKochenov
sieps.se/en/publication…

15/ 15 July 2021: ECJ judgment in Case C-791/19 Commission v Poland (Protecting Polish Judges from Political Control)

For further analysis, in addition to @SIEPS_Sweden casebook above, see @Verfassungsblog post for quicker take: verfassungsblog.de/protecting-pol…

16/ 22 July 2021: ECtHR judgment in the case of Reczkowicz v. Poland (Irregular appointments to Disciplinary Chamber of Poland’s Supreme Court)

For further analysis, see @Verfassungsblog post by @marcinszwed89 verfassungsblog.de/hundreds-of-ju…
and for broader take verfassungsblog.de/the-jokes-have…

17/ 20 September 2021: ECJ VP (second) order in Case C-121/21 Czech Republic v Poland (Turów mine)

For brief take ceje.ch/fr/actualites/…

NB While not about RoL, order worth noting as as it follows open violation of previous order, evidencing pattern of systemic non-compliance

18/ 6 October 2021: ECJ VP (second) order in Case C-204/21 Commission v Poland (Safeguarding the Independence of Polish Judges post ‘Muzzle Law’)

19/ 6 October 2021: ECJ judgment in Case C-487/19 W.Ż. (Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs of the Supreme Court-Appointment)

For background, see: sieps.se/en/publication… & fresh evidence of obstruction to prevent application of ruling
themis-sedziowie.eu/materials-in-e…

20/ 27 October 2021: ECJ VP (third) order in Case C-204/21 Commission v Poland (Safeguarding the Independence of Polish Judges post ‘Muzzle Law’)

For background, see: sieps.se/en/publication…
and this @DCU_Brexit_Inst post by Prof Renata Uitz: dcubrexitinstitute.eu/2021/11/commis…

21/ 8 November 2021: ECtHR judgment in the case of Dolińska-Ficek and Ozimek v. Poland (Lack of independence of 🇵🇱's NCJ & irregular appointments to 🇵🇱’s Chamber of Extraordinary Review and Public Affairs of the Supreme Court)

My quick 4 takes here:

22/ 16 November 2021: ECJ judgment in Joined Cases C-748/19 to C-754/19 Criminal proceedings against WB
(latest ruling as of today. Will continue adding to this 🧵 as plenty of pending ECJ & ECtHR cases remaining, with significant increasing no of ECtHR complaints to be expected)

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