Spór o rolę deputatów duchownych w Trybunale Koronnym

The Supreme Court came into being in 1578. The task of the court was considering the appeals from sentences passed by the lower instance. There were 27 secular judges and 6 church representatives in the court. The same amount of clergymen and secular judges reargued a case in which one of the sides was a person or an institution connected with the church. However from the very beginning parliament members spirituals had more power than they were expected to have according to the law: they took part in the election of the chairman – marshal − as well as reconsidered the cases not connected with the church, together with the secular judges, although they shouldn’t. Some nobleman did not approve that over-participation of clergyman. Therefore there was a serious dispute between the supporters and the opponents of such a strong position of clergyman in the Supreme Court. Finally, the clergymen’s influence on the court's work was diminished. It was a result of the reforms of 18th century.