nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20160826-092339 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 160825s2016||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20160826-092339 doi eng 342 23 Koncewicz, Tomasz Tadeusz Author aut Polish Constitutional Tribunal goes down with dignity Koncewicz, Tomasz Tadeusz Verfassungsblog 2016-08-25 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 11 of August 2016 the Polish Constitutional Tribunal (“Tribunal”) decided case K 39/16 in which it disqualified, for the second time in the span of 5 months, court-packing provisions contained in the Law of 22 July, 2016 on the Constitutional Tribunal. Separation of powers, judicial independence and effective functioning of the constitutional court were again the keywords that informed the analysis. After this most recent case the clock is ticking on the Tribunal and this time the self-defense by way of courageous judicial pronouncements might not be enough to survive. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Poland Polish Constitutional Tribunal Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/polish-constitutional-tribunal-goes-down-with-dignity/ raw object