MARTA TOMKIEWICZ-JANUSZEWSKA

Amnesty International Poland Competition juror

Educator, barrister, social activist. She is a disciplinary judge of the Disciplinary Court of the Warsaw Bar Association, a member of the Disciplinary Panel of the 1st Instance at the Polish Anti-Doping Agency "POLADA" and the Health and Welfare Committee of the ISF-International School of Sport Federation. Member of the Board of Amnesty Intenational Poland for the 2023-2025 term. On 1 February 2024, she was appointed to the Social Council for the Fund for Victims' Aid and Post-Penitentiary Assistance - Justice Fund at the Minister of Justice. She lectures to trainee attorneys of the Warsaw Bar Association on criminal law and procedure and on ethics, as well as to students of the Leon Koźmiński Academy. In 2016, she was included in the list of lawyers cooperating with the Embassy of the Italian Republic in Warsaw. Since 2018, she has been qualified as a mediator. Author of publications on criminal and professional ethics issues. Senior instructor of the training course "Train the trainer - training for criminal defence lawyers" within the European NETPRALAT programme, dedicated to criminal lawyers. Since 2016, she has been co-coordinating the educational projects of the Warsaw Bar Association, implemented as part of the Pol'and'Rock and Open'er music festivals.

She is a member of the Warsaw Bar Association and has been running her own law firm since 3 January 2013. She is a practical, litigation lawyer. In November 2017, she was distinguished in the ranking Rising Stars - Lawyers Leaders of Tomorrow 2017, for her activity allowing her to be described as a "lawyer responsible for the world", and in March 2020 she was awarded the badge of "Advocacy Merit" by the Supreme Bar Council. Since January 2021, she has been a mentor in the international EmpowerPL programme, organised by the Boston Consulting Group and the Federation of Polish Student Associations in the UK. Permanent legal advisor to the Sejm Commission for investigating the legality, correctness and expediency of actions, as well as the existence of abuses, negligence and omissions in the area of legalisation of the stay of foreigners on the territory of the Republic of Poland in the period from 12 November 2019 to 20 November 2023.