The illegal disciplinary chamber “resolved” that it lifts the judge’s immunity of the President of the Labor Law and Social Security Chamber of the Supreme Court, Józef Iwulski. At the same time, neo-judges unlawfully “ruled” that they suspend Judge Józef Iwulski from official duties and reduce his remuneration by 25%.
The Disciplinary Chamber is not a court. Therefore, it could neither lift the immunity of the President of the Supreme Court, Józef Iwulski, nor suspend him in the performance of his function. Today’s decision is not a court decision. Judge Iwulski was not deprived of his immunity!
The case was “handled” by Małgorzata Bednarek – the prosecutor closely related to MoJ Zbigniew Ziobro, and in addition is personally in conflict with Judge Iwulski. The “composition of the court” included also prosecutors Jarosław Duś and Adam Roch.
The illegal “resolution” of the disciplinary chamber was “passed” by a majority of votes. A dissenting opinion was submitted by prosecutor Roch.
The point of the illegal “proceedings” to waive the immunity of President Iwulski, is to take over the files of cases in which questions were asked for a preliminary ruling regarding the status of neo-judges and to discontinue these proceedings, preventing the Court of Justice of the EU from passing a judgment.
In this politically motivated case, investigators of the Institution of National Remembrance (IPN) want to charge Judge Iwulski with absurd charges of committing a “communist crime” in connection with the fact that in 1982 he was a member of the Warsaw Military District Court, which sentenced a worker for distributing “anti-state” leaflets.
Meanwhile, Judge Iwulski had the opinion of one of the most decent-behaving judges of those times. He was approved by the Solidarity underground – which was confirmed yesterday during the testimony of prof. Adam Strzembosz, former First President of the Supreme Court. Professor Strzembosz also said that Judge Iwulski would not have joined the Supreme Court after 1989 if there were doubts as to his attitude under martial law. The current accusations against Józef Iwulski are a political vendetta of the current authorities for his exemplary judicial attitude, in difficult times of destroying the independence of the judiciary, for the fact that the Chamber of Labor Law was the first to ask the most important questions for a preliminary ruling to the CJEU about the status of the disciplinary chamber and neo-NCJ.
The defenders of judge Józef Iwulski are the SC Justice prof. Włodzimierz Wróbel, for whom the politicized prosecutor’s office also wants to lift his immunity, and on behalf of the Justice Defense Committee KOS, attorneys-at-law Agnieszka Helsztyńska and Sylwia Gregorczyk-Abram.