In order to collect and utilise and also to accomplish specific objectives, the President of the National Office for the Judiciary (hereinafter: NOJ) sets up working groups to carry out particular tasks.

With activities encompassing analysis, consultancy, proposals, opinions and preparation for decision-making, these working groups are there to help the President of NOJ in discharging duties set out in Section 76 of the Act CLXI of 2011 on the organisation and administration of courts.

The aim of the national programmes enhancing the service-provider nature of courts via central administration is to direct more attention to such priority areas of the day-to-day law enforcement work as the treatment by the enforcement bodies of minors and victims involved in the proceedings, the extension of the application of alternative dispute resolution procedures and the introduction to the work of the court system, as well as to help clients participate in the proceedings with appropriate legal awareness, significantly helping – both directly and indirectly – the administration of ju

International trainings, scholarship programmes

The NOJ and the courts have had wide-scope and permanent professional connections with international organizations and foreign courts for several years. These international co-operations and training programmes enable judges, assistant judges and court staff to get familiar with significant international tendencies, gain useful knowledge as well as exchange ideas and they also contribute in sharing knowledge as well.

The objective of criminal proceedings are to make a decision about the criminal responsibility of a person who committed a crime. In Hungary only a court can establish guilt/criminality and impose a sentence on a person.

In case of a suspicion that a crime was committed, the proceedings are started either ex officio or by bringing a charge against somebody. Such charge may be brought by either the victim of the crime, or anybody becoming aware of such crime. The report must be made to the police.

Courts and Communication V.

After the successful conferences of the last four years, the National Office for the Judiciary organises the next international two-day conference in Budapest on 12-13 October 2017, entitled Conference on Courts and Communication. This will be the fifth event of a series of annual conferences held in Budapest dedicated to the complex issue of courts and communication with a specific focus issue each year presented by both nationally and internationally acclaimed experts.

Alternative dispute resolution procedure, i.e. court mediation, has been available in Hungarian courts since the second semester of 2012, and is an effective tool of enhancing customer satisfaction and timeliness in civil litigious and non-litigious cases. From 1 January 2018, the parties will have the possibilities to approve the mediation agreement in court in a settlement attempt at a very low fee to make it enforceable.