Manual control of the public prosecutor’s office
9 July 2025 • Autor: Kancelaria Brysiewicz Bokina i Wspólnicy
Manual control of the prosecutor’s office. This is a phrase that can be heard more than once in the public space, usually in a pejorative context. It is, of course, about limiting the independence of the prosecutor handling a case.
How can this happen?
For example, by the issuing of orders to him by a superior prosecutor, i.e. by means of so-called ‘orders coming from above’.
It should be recalled in this context that the boss of all bosses in the prosecutor’s office is none other than a flesh-and-blood politician – each time the Minister of Justice.
This way of functioning of the prosecutor’s office has repeatedly been criticised, but there has never been any real, effective decoupling of the institution of the prosecutor’s office from the Ministry of Justice.
It is not just that the positions of Prosecutor General and Minister of Justice should be formally separated.
It would be to ensure their institutional independence.
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