I declare that, on 16 December 2019, Judge Michał Lasota, the Deputy Disciplinary Commissioner of the Ordinary Court Judges, initiated disciplinary proceedings against Ewa M., Judge of the Regional Court in Warsaw, charging her with a disciplinary violation defined in Article 107 § 1 of the Act of 27 July 2001, Law on the System of Common Courts (Journal of Laws No. 52 of 2019 as amended) whereby on 21 January 2019, in Warsaw, she violated the dignity of her office, when, acting as a judge appointed to assess the qualifications of a judge of the District Court for the Capital City of Warsaw, candidate for a vacant judicial post in the Regional Court in Warsaw, she drew up an assessment containing inadmissible remarks relating to the stance of judges running for vacant judicial posts, thereby undermining the status and the functioning of a constitutional state body, the National Council of the Judiciary, which constituted a gross violation of the principle of non-partisanship of judges set out in Article 178(3) of the Constitution as well as the obligation to act in accordance with the judicial oath, including in particular the obligation to uphold the law, as prescribed in Article 82 § 1 of the Law on the Structure of Ordinary Courts.
This decision is accompanied by a request addressed to the President of the Supreme Court – head of the Disciplinary Chamber, to refer this case to be investigated by a disciplinary court of first instance.
(-) SSO Piotr Schab RZECZNIK DYSCYPLINARNY SĘDZIÓW SĄDÓW POWSZECHNYCH
