nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200912-211453-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200911s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200912-211453-0 doi eng 342 23 It’s Urgent III AG Sharpston Dismissed in a Radical Move: The Court of Justice Proclaims its Own Lack of Independence Verfassungsblog 2020-09-11 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier 10 September 2020 was a watershed moment for the Court of Justice’s independence: the Court, through its Vice-President, has agreed to dismiss its own sitting member without even notifying her of the appeal against the suspensory order protecting her tenure guaranteed in the EU Treaties. It did so by arguing, effectively, that the Member States could dismiss members of the Court at will, and that such decisions were beyond judicial review: AG Sharpston’s fight for the independence of the Court, according to that very Court through its Vice-President, had ‘prima facie’ ‘no prospect of success’. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 AG Sharpston Court of Justice EU Treaty judicial independence Butler, Graham Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/its-urgent-iii/ raw object