Constitutional judiciary in crisis

The Constitutional Tribunal has played a key role in shaping the democratic rule of law and in protecting human rights in Poland. Over the 30 years of its activity (1986–2016) it has developed significant jurisprudence. In the autumn of 2015, a crisis of the judicial review of the constitutionality of the law in Poland began, whose development led to a slowdown and, eventually, to stopping the activity of the Tribunal.