On September 25-26, 2024, members of the delegation of the Supreme Administrative Court, headed by the Vice-President of the Supreme Administrative Court, President of the General Administrative Chamber, Jerzy Siegień, participated in the conference on “Online Privacy and Freedom of the Media: Judicial Perspective” organized in Vilnius by the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania, Vilnius University and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania. Vice-President Jerzy Siegień gave a lecture on “Recusal of a Judge as a Guarantee of Court Impartiality”. During the conference, the Supreme Administrative Court was also represented by other members of the delegation: Małgorzata Miron – Chairwoman of Department II of the General Administrative Chamber, Judges of the Supreme Administrative Court Andrzej Skoczylas and Bartosz Wojciechowski, as well as Adrianna Tarłowska – Senior Assistant to the Judge and Chief Specialist in the Chancellery of the President of the Supreme Administrative Court. In addition, during two panels, the Lithuanian and Ukrainian sides presented their presentations on, among others, harmonization of values in law, restrictions on freedom of speech, ensuring privacy and media freedom within the rule of law, and the participation of judges in public debates on issues of public interest.
On 27 September 2024, a trilateral Polish-Lithuanian-Ukrainian meeting was held with representatives of the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania and the Administrative Court of Cassation of the Supreme Court of Ukraine, during which the Presidents of the courts discussed the role of administrative courts in ensuring effective protection of human rights in the area of public administration and the current challenges arising from it. Vice-President Jerzy Siegień discussed this issue in his speech on effective protection of human rights implemented by guaranteeing the right to a court in its full scope.