Resolution No. 47/2019

                         of the Regional Bar Association in Szczecin of 29 March 2019

Upon reading the disciplinary decision of the Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court with respect to a judge of the Regional Court in Gorzów Wielkopolski, the Regional Bar Association in Szczecin is amazed that disciplinary proceedings can enter so blatantly into the adjudicating competence of the Ordinary Court.

The consequence of such a decision may be the acceptance of the principles from several decades ago that the proof of an accused’s guilt is the mere indictment, while the reason for applying a temporary arrest is that such a motion was filed by a prosecutor.

A far-reaching consequence can only be the transfer of rights to apply a temporary arrest to the prosecutors and the return to placing the person representing the public prosecutor in the judge’s seat, as was the case several decades ago.

The bar association cannot be silent on this matter – because this applies not so much to the ‘equality of arms’ but even the disturbance in confidence in the justice administration in the Republic of Poland.

DEAN

of the Regional Bar Association

in Szczecin

Włodzimierz Łyczywek, Attorney-at-Law