Human Rights Tribunal sends sixth warning about the Polish pace of justice
Human Rights Tribunal sends sixth warning about the Polish pace of justice
Poland has lost another case at the Human Rights Tribunal in Strasbourg
for the slow pace of justice bringing the total number of this type of
case lost to six. This time Poland will pay zl. 25,000 to a Warsaw
businessman, who has been waiting for a decision on breaking up his
company since 1987. According to Domestic Court Council member judge Marek
Celej, Poland will continue to lose cases in Strasbourg, because the
situation in the courts is not changing. After 1990 the judges'
jurisdiction was extended, but their number, the number of courtrooms and
budgets remained the same. To make matters worse, court procedures are
complicated and according to Celej, the proposal to simplify the criminal
law was stopped by the Justice Ministry. (Gazeta Wyborcza, page 1,6)
