The Court has declared inadmissible the applications in the cases of Dudek and Lazur v. Poland and I.G. v. Poland and in 19 other applications.

The cases concerned proceedings involving the applicants decided by formations of the Polish Supreme Court, which they alleged had not been “independent and impartial tribunal[s] established by law”. The applications came in the context of the reorganisation of the judicial system in Poland in what had been described by many observers as a “rule-of-law crisis”.

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