The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights and Human Rights Committee of the Polish Bar Association have the pleasure of inviting our readers to take part in the conference My lawyer, my Rights. Justice System for Children, devoted to the legal guarantees for children in conflict with the law and specifically to children’s access to the […]

The Helsinki Foundation of Human Rights has prepared two publications that provide comprehensive coverage of access to a defence lawyer in Poland from the perspectives of international standards and practical application of those standards.

A past-dated, one-sentence decision, sent via fax and issued without any comprehensive assessment of the situation within a court: this is how the Minister of Justice was dismissing presidents and deputy presidents of courts from August 2017 to February 2018, reveals today’s report of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights.