Reviews the constitutionality of statutes and treaties and decides individual constitutional complaints against final decisions based on an unconstitutional norm. The validity of several appointments made from 2015 has been contested before the CJEU and the ECtHR, which found in Xero Flor v. Poland that a panel including an improperly elected judge was not a tribunal established by law.
How the court is constituted
- Tier
- constitutional
- Court type
- Constitutional tribunal
- Jurisdiction
- Poland — constitutionality of statutes and constitutional complaints
- Seat
- Warsaw
- Composition
- Fifteen judges elected by the Sejm for single nine-year terms.
- Languages
- Polish
Where an appeal goes next
None; its judgments are final and universally binding.
Found something out of date on Constitutional Tribunal of Poland?
Corrections are reviewed against the primary source before anything changes.