National Office for the Judiciary (NOJ) - Scope of authority of the President of NOJ 

The beginnings of the operation of a self-governing system of the courts

The justice system created by the reform of 1997, which entrusted the National Council of Justice (NCJ) as a self-governing body with the administration of courts, is a novel and unique formation in Europe. Given its unprecedented functioning in the ’90s its formation and method of functioning needed several revisions on the way of improvement.

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The organisation of the Curia

The Curia is the highest judicial authority in Hungary. Under the authority of its President it has three departments: criminal, civil and administrative-labour law departments. Each department has various chambers: chambers hearing appellate cases, chambers passing uniformity decisions, chambers issuing decisions on principles, as well as working groups examining judicial practice.

It is the strategic objective of the President of the NOJ to simplify access to courts. As a result of the project,

• clients may continuously keep track of the main events of the proceedings in which they are involved via a portal interface as well as view their obligations and the current status of the case.

It is a strategic goal and also at the same time a statutory obligation of the President of the NOJ to ensure the trainings of the judges that includes the constant development of the content of the trainings and the training system, as well. In 2015 the training central system was supplemented by local and regional trainings. This means that without interfering with the own trainings organized by the respective courts, the NOJ supports the local or regional trainings with quality assurance and financing.

It is a primary objective to ensure that we have modern, 21st century courts. To this effect, based on the own choice of the judges, a total of 2424 mobile devices were purchased 

In order to efficiently introduce a new office system, the project entitled ”From Dream to Reality – Administration in the 21st Century” was set up. Proper working conditions play a pivotal role in enforcing high level and timely judicial activities. Thanks to this modern office application package, going forward all courts nation-wide will be able to use a uniform mailing interface and word processing application thereby avoiding problems arising from different formants.

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The work of judges is assisted by the Integrated Judicial Information System (BIIR). It is the distinguished duty of NOJ to ensure the continued development of this system and its harmonisation with the changing legislation. The provision of up-to-date information to heads of courts is facilitated by the data and statistics of the Manager Information System (VIR).

In this project our goal is

One of the strategic objectives of the President of the National Office For the Judiciary is to make the administration of justice and judicial work more transparent and predictable. By way of modern technical solutions generated in this project, the citizens' trust in the work of courts might become stronger.

The implementation of this project will