Part II. Questions Concerning Individual Institutions 0f The Government of Our Voivodeship

Question 13: Who exercises the judicial authority in our Voivodeship?

13.1 The justice system in our Voivodeship is performed by national courts and voivodeship courts, i.e. the Supreme Voivodeship Court and county courts. All courts administer justice and issue judgments on behalf of the Republic of Poland.

13.2. Voivodeship county courts exercise justice in our Voivodeship by adjudicating in the first instance in all cases not reserved by law to the jurisdiction of regional courts.

13.3 The Supreme Voivodeship Court of our Voivodeship administers the justice system:

13.3.a. in the Administrative Chamber - as an administrative court of first instance in cases concerning the judicial review of activities of subnational administration of our Voivodeship, including in cases of complaints against individual decisions, of compliance of local lower-order acts of law issued by communes, counties, cities and the Voivodeship with national laws and subnational laws of the higher order, of complaints against acts of supervision over the activities of communes, cities and counties issued by voivodeship authorities, as well as of competence disputes between communes, cities, counties and voivodeship authorities in our Voivodeship;

13.3.b. in the Civil, Criminal and Labor and Social Security Chambers - as a common court of second instance in cases of appeals against the judgments of county courts in our Voivodeship.

13.4 Judges of the Supreme Voivodeship Court shall be appointed by the President of the Republic of Poland at the request of the National Council of the Judiciary. This motion may be submitted by the National Council of the Judiciary concerning a candidate who has obtained a positive opinion of the Voivodeship Senate by a majority of at least 60% of the weighted votes of the full Voivodeship Senate. However, if three consecutive candidates proposed by the National Council of the Judiciary for a given judicial post do not obtain the required majority of 60% of the weighted votes, the National Council of the Judiciary may present to the President of the Republic the candidate who obtained the highest number of weighted votes among the candidates for that post presented to the Voivodeship Senate. 

13.5 The National Council of the Judiciary shall consist, in addition to other persons mentioned in the Constitution of the Republic of Poland, of eight judges elected for individual four-year terms by the General Assemblies of the Supreme Voivodeship Courts. The General Assembly of each Supreme Voivodeship Court, including the Supreme Court of our Voivodeship, elects a member of the National Council of the Judiciary every second term. Every year, these members of the National Judicial Council shall be elected in two voivodeships.



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