[1] He is known for his criticism on government prosecutorial practices and his protests against judicial reforms, which he sees as a threat to the independence of the Polish judiciary.

The alleged breach happened when Tuleya allowed the press to hear the justification of one of the verdicts he gave in court.

According to Tuleya, Garlicki was depicted as the personification of immoral behavior by physicians, and the post communist elite in general.

In 2015, when the Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (Law and Justice, PiS) came into power, his verdict was used as support for accusations of corruption in the Polish judicial system.

[13] According to media reports and his own testament, he, as a judge, may have consented to widespread surveillance measures by Polish authorities using the Pegasus software.

[14][15][16] Besides tracing the opposition's activities, the software may as well have been used to monitor governing party cadres by power brokers within the PiS via interior department ministers Mariusz Kamiński and Maciej Wąsik.