WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's justice minister on Thursday asked its Constitutional Tribunal to examine whether an article of the European Convention on Human Rights breaches the constitution, deepening an international row over the country's judicial reforms.
Critics including the European Union say Poland's nationalist government is undermining judicial independence, and in May the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that a company had been denied its right to a proper hearing due to the illegal appointment of a Constitutional Tribunal judge.