Our academic – deputy chairwoman of the Commission for the Codification of the System of Judiciary and Public Prosecution
Dr hab. Karolina Kremens, director of the Incubator of Scientific Excellence – Digital Justice Center, which operates at the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics of the University of Wrocław, became deputy chairwoman of the Commission for the Codification of the System of Judiciary and Public Prosecution. Congratulations!
According to the Ministry of Justice, the Commission will prepare draft laws on the system of the judiciary and public prosecution. The draft laws and executive acts adopted by the Commission will be presented to the Minister of Justice by the Commission’s chairperson.
The Commission will assist the Minister of Justice in the legislative process for the drafts being developed. More information: https://www.gov.pl/web/sprawedliwosc/powolanie-powiedzkow-komisji-kodyfikacyjna-ustroju-sadow-powszechnych-i-prokuratury2.
Dr hab. Karolina Kremens has practical experience in the work of a prosecutor, gained while serving as an assessor of the prosecutor’s office in Wrocław. She complements it with broad scientific background, being the author of, among others, publications on the prosecutor’s office (see: K. Kremens, Powers of the Prosecutor in Criminal Investigation. A Comparative Perspective, Routledge 2021), or a long-time employee of the Chair of Criminal Procedure. Additionally, she has international experience gained while managing international grants and during numerous stays at foreign universities, including in the USA and Canada.
– I treat the nomination as an expression of trust and appreciation of the Minister of Justice, Adam Bodnar, for research on the organization and functioning of the prosecutor’s office and the role of the prosecutor in criminal proceedings, to which I have devoted a large part of my scientific achievements – says dr. hab. Karolina Kremens. – In the past, I dealt with the professional responsibility of prosecutors.
Together with Wojciech Jasiński, she was a co-author of a report commissioned by the Ministry of Justice regarding the workload of prosecutors’ offices and public prosecutors, which, based on the obtained statistical data, allowed to demonstrate vast disproportions in the activities of individual prosecutors in the so-called statistical periods, as well as a disproportionate burden on lower-level units with the basic task of prosecutors, which is to conduct investigations and supervise investigations. – In 2014, together with Wojciech Jasiński and Michał Gabriel-Węglowski, we prepared a draft of amendments to the Regulations on the internal administration of common organizational units of the prosecutor’s office – she says. – The issue of the prosecutor’s role in preparatory proceedings from a comparative legal perspective was also the subject of my recent monograph (Powers of the Prosecutor in Criminal Investigation. A Comparative Perspective, Routledge 2021) – dr Kremens adds.
First of all, the Commission will deal with draft bridging laws that will be aimed at changing the system on an ad hoc basis. – This will include, among others: a draft of separation of the positions of the Prosecutor General and the Minister of Justice – dr Kremens lists. – Work on comprehensive laws on changes to the system of both the judiciary and the prosecutor’s office will take considerably more time. And that’s good – she says. – The system requires profound changes, and these cannot be prepared in a hurry. In the construction of the prosecutorial system, much will also depend on the directions of changes proposed for the criminal procedure, which will be developed in parallel by the newly established Commission for the Codification of Criminal Law.
I am convinced that among both legal scholars and practitioners, representing – importantly – all levels of the judiciary and prosecution, we will be able to develop good and effective solutions for the Polish justice system – emphasizes dr. hab. Karolina Kremens.
Prepared by Katarzyna Górowicz-Maćkiewicz
Translated by Joanna Grabowiecka (student of English Studies at the University of Wrocław) as part of the translation practice.
