Poland to water down controversial justice reform plans

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A controversial Polish 2017 justice reform is to be watered down after the EU raised concern over the independence of the judiciary, according to the leader of Poland's governing right-wing party

Jaroslaw Kaczynski said a new "Disciplinary Chamber" of Poland's supreme court, which critics say is a political body aimed at suppressing any judicial opposition to legal changes made by the government, will be abolished.

The chamber oversees Polish judges, with the power to lift their immunity to expose them to criminal proceedings or cut their salaries. The government argued the reforms were necessary to tackle corruption and end Communist-era legacies in the judiciary.

 

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Hello RTE any chance Ireland could water down the Useless corrupt government ever in our history and for the irish people to demand a general election before our corrosive government bury this country further into the ground...

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