Office of the Tribunal

Address: 00-918 Warsaw, Al. J. Ch. Szucha 12a

General information

The Office of the Constitutional Tribunal assures the organizational, administrative, and financial background of the Constitutional Tribunal activities. The Office of the Tribunal, which is subordinate to the President of the Tribunal, is managed by its head, appointed by the General Assembly of Judges. It acts on the basis of the Statute, dispositions, orders and decisions issued by the Head of the Office.

Tasks of the Office are performed by the Presidential Department, Department of Jurisprudence and Studies, Department of Preliminary Review of Applications and Constitutional Complaints, Registry of the Tribunal, Department of Press and Information, Library of the Tribunal (Editorial Office of the Tribunal's Publications), Assistans of the Jusctices,Finances and Accountancy Section , Administration and Procurement Section, IT Section, Human Resources Manager, Legal Advisor to tghe Office, Auditor at the Office and Constitutional Tribunal Guards.

The basic tasks of selected sections and departments are, among others:

Presidential Department - provides services for the Secretaries of the President and Vice-President of the Tribunal. The Presidential Department fulfills indicated tasks belonging to the official scope of the President and Vice-President's activities, organizational service for the General Assembly of Judges and their international affairs, the organization of conferences, seminars and lectures, and propagation of the Tribunal's activities.

Department of Preliminary Review of Applications and Constitutional Complaints - performs the work connected with accepting constitutional complaints and proceeding with further action. The Department informs potential complainants about the constitutional complaint procedure and answers letters and petitions sent to the Tribunal.

Department of Jurisprudence and Studies - studies the Tribunal's jurisprudence, and also the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and the Chief Administrative Court, especially in the area of issues essential for the Tribunal's jurisdiction. This department also collects analytical research on judicial decisions resulting from the questions of law referred to the Tribunal by the courts.

Registry of the Tribunal - executes Presidential orders dealing with the cases that come before the Tribunal; keeps the court's documentation in order by providing secretarial and clerical services; and grants access to the files of the cases investigated by the Tribunal, to participants in the proceedings.

Editorial Office of the Tribunal's Publications - organizes the Tribunal's jurisdiction into a publishable form. The Editorial Office edits and issues the Official Collection of Constitutional Tribunal's Jurisdiction and other publications dealing with the Tribunal's work in Poland and other nation's Constitutional Courts' impact throughout the world.

Department of Press and Information - the Court's press service, it performs the duties connected with informing the public about the Tribunal's work and about the judicial decisions included in the Tribunal's jurisdiction that may affect the public.

Contacts

Presidential Department
presidential matters, protocol services, international affairs, organization of conferences, seminars and lectures, propagation of Tribunal's activities
Director Adam Jankiewicz
Phone: + 4822 657-45-30, fax + 4822 629-39-77, e-mail: jankiewicz@trybunal.gov.pl  (director)
e-mail: prezydialny@trybunal.gov.pl (department)
Deputy director Mariusz Bobiński
Phone: + 4822 657-45-32, e-mail: bobinski@trybunal.gov.pl , prezydialny@trybunal.gov.pl

Department of Press and Information
press service, public relations, performing the duties that arise from the Act on Access to Public Information
Spokesperson of the Office of Tribunal Katarzyna Sokolewicz-Hirszel
Phone: + 4822 657-45-15, e-mail: sokolewicz.hirszel@trybunal.gov.pl , prasainfo@trybunal.gov.pl
Anna Wołoszczak
Phone: + 4822 657-45-00, e-mail: woloszczak@trybunal.gov.pl
Grażyna Leśniak
Phone: + 4822 537-46-12, e-mail: lesniak@trybunal.gov.pl

Department of Jurisprudence and Studies
studying the Tribunal's jurisprudence, preparing information about the essential problems emerging from the Tribunal's jurisdiction, analytical research
Director
Phone: + 4822 621-76-34, + 4822 657-45-14, e-mail: orzecznictwo@trybunal.gov.pl

Department of Preliminary Review of Applications and Constitutional Complaints
initial qualification of individual cases coming into the Tribunal, keeping the records of cases related to constitutional complaint, informing about the procedure of submitting the constitutional complaint
Director Beata Szepietowska
Phone: + 4822 657-45-12, + 4822 657-45-78, e-mail: szepietowska@trybunal.gov.pl , skarga@trybunal.gov.pl
Deputy director Paweł Wiliński
Phone: + 4822 657-45-88, + 4822 657-45-78, e-mail: wilinski@trybunal.gov.pl 

Registry of the Tribunal
executing Presidential orders concerning cases coming into the Tribunal, keeping the court's documentation
Registrar Dorota HajdukPhone: + 4822 657-45-82, fax + 48 22 657-45-90, e-mail: dorota.hajduk@trybunal.gov.pl

Library of the Tribunal
collecting and lending books, periodicals and other publications, scientific information, publishing activity
Director Krzysztof Budziło
Phone: + 4822 657-45-44, e-mail: budzilo@trybunal.gov.pl

Reading room: + 4822 657-45-27, fax + 4822 657-45-91, e-mail: bib@trybunal.gov.pl , wydawnictwa@trybunal.gov.pl

Finances and Accountancy Section
Director/General Accountant Anna Sipa
Phone: + 4822 657-45-45

Human Resources Manager
Joanna Kerner
Phone: + 4822 657-45-70, e-mail: kerner@trybunal.gov.pl

IT Department
Director Krzysztof Orliński
Phone: + 4822 657-45-61 /or 68/, e-mail: orlinski@trybunal.gov.pl

Administration and Procurement Department
Director Irena Cygoń
Phone: + 4822 621-57-66, + 4822 657-45-85, fax + 4822 622-18-30, e-mail: cygon@trybunal.gov.pl

Constitutional Tribunal Guards
Chief Guard Wojciech Górnicki
Phone: + 4822 657-45-08