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  • Barbara Grabowska-Moroz

Rule of law as a protection against arbitrariness – Sobczyńska and others v Poland

October 23, 2026

By Barbara Grabowska-Moroz In May 2026, the ECtHR decided Sobczyńska and others v Poland – a case suggesting the existence of structural shortcomings of judicial independence in the Polish legal system, which existed long before the rule of law crisis started in Poland in 2015. The case concerns the role of access to judicial review […]