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Here are Poland's candidates for European Court of Human Rights Judge

10.07.2024 09:45
Anna Adamska-Gallant, Małgorzata Wąsek-Wiaderek, and Adam Wiśniewski have been selected by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They will be presented to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
The list of Polands candidates for the European Court of Human Rights Judge.
The list of Poland's candidates for the European Court of Human Rights Judge.RDNE Stock project/pexels.com/CC0

According to PAP, Anna Adamska-Gallant, with 17 years of judicial experience in Poland and the Balkans, served as an international judge in Kosovo from 2013 to 2018, focusing on war crimes. She later became a Supreme Court judge in Kosovo and now works as an independent justice and rule of law expert for organizations like Expertise France, the Council of Europe, and the World Bank, advising on judicial independence in Ukraine.

Małgorzata Wąsek-Wiaderek has been a Supreme Court judge in the Criminal Chamber since 2018 and has served on the Criminal Law Codification Commission during two periods. She also served as an ad hoc judge at the ECHR from 2014 to 2016.

Adam Wiśniewski, a professor at the University of Gdańsk with over twenty years of experience in human rights, has been head of the Department of Public International Law since 2010 and a member of the Advisory Legal Committee at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2024.

A public meeting with the candidates will take place in the Senate of the Republic of Poland on July 23, 2024, at 11:00 AM. The list is scheduled to be submitted to the Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on July 29, 2024.

Source: PAP

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