Sylwia Gregorczyk-Abram

In 2017, amid a series of public protests against the judiciary reforms introduced by the Law and Justice (PiS) government, along with Maria Ejchart-Dubois, Paulina Kieszkowska-Knapik and Michał Wawrykiewicz, she co-founded the Free Courts Civic Initiative (Inicjatywa Obywatelska “Wolne Sądy”).^[8] In December 2019, the group organised a series of public protests against the proposed legislation that allowed the newly formed Disciplinary Chamber of the Supreme Court of Poland to punish judges who engage in what the government deemed "political activity".^[9][10][11] In 2018, she was among co-founders of the Komitet Obrony Sprawiedliwości (KOS, Justice Defence Committee).^[12][4][13]

In 2019, Gregorczyk-Abram successfully represented LGBT+ groups on a pro bono basis in their legal motion against a pro-government conservative Polish newspaper Gazeta Polska which resulted in the court’s decision to halt the distribution of controversial “LGBT-free zone” stickers.^{[14][15][16][17]} She also served as a representative of judges appealing to the Court of Justice of the European Union in joint case C-585/18, C-624/18iC-625/18A.K,^[18] concerning the independence of the Disciplinary Chamber of the Polish Supreme Court as well as in the case C-487/19 of a Polish judge Waldemar Żurek questioning his transfer to another court,^[19][20] which both ended with a ruling undermining the legality of the reforms introduced by the Polish government.^[21]

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• 2016 – "Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year" prize by the Polish daily Rzeczpospolita^[22]
• 2016 – "Rising Stars – Prawnicy liderzy jutra 2016", organised by Wolters Kluwer and Dziennik Gazeta Prawna^[23]
• 2019 – "Złoty Paragraf" in the category of best advocates, awarded by Dziennik Gazeta Prawna^[24]
• 2020 – European Citizens’ Prize (as a member of the Wolne Sądy)^[8]