Op-ed: Polish government criticized for initiating unconstitutional legislative changes violating judicial independence

By Christian Davies, 27 February 2017
The president of Poland’s supreme court has urged the country’s judges to “fight for every inch of justice” as the rightwing government pushes for changes that critics say would make judicial independence a “pure fiction”. “For over a year I have been repeating that the courts are easily turned into a plaything in the hands of politicians,” Małgorzata Gersdorf told her colleagues in an ope[...] Read more here: The Guardian

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