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.

The objective of the programme is to provide assistance to witnesses subpoenaed to appear before the court confidently, being aware of their rights and without fear. Some of the good practices existing previously, but only used at a few courts are sought to be spread and strengthened on a national level by way of the programme.

Main achievements:

Answers to questionnaire

I. Judicial brand

1. How much emphasis do you put on creating judicial brand in your country?

2. How much do you create judicial brand consciously in your country? How much were you aware to create and improve judicial brand in the last years?

3. What kind of tools do you use for having uniform image?

4. In what ways do you give instructions for creating uniform image in the organisational units?

Condition of the membership on NJC

A judge with at least 5 years of judicial practice may be eligible for election as a member of the NJC.

The following may not be eligible for election as an NJC member:

Az alprojekt eredményeként a tárgyalótermek rendkívül elavult informatikai infrastruktúrájának fejlesztése, valamint a bírák és igazságügyi alkalmazottak hatékonyabb munkavégzésének elősegítése is megvalósult. Összesen 901 db új tárgyalótermi munkaállomás és 284 db új irodai munkaállomás áll rendelkezésre a dolgozók számára, melyek működését 165 db hálózati eszköz segíti.

The key goals of the national programme of the National Office for the Judiciary titled ‘Child-centred Justice’ are to protect the interests of children in court procedures and to continuously educate the judges hearing cases involving minors.

In 2017, the National Office for the Judiciary continued to treat the high-level protection of the interests and rights of children in court proceedings as a priority, and put a strong emphasis on the training of family law judges and judges hearing the criminal cases of young persons.

Since 2013 the parties have an opportunity in the bigger Hungarian courts to use mediation procedure in connection with the pending civil, and non-judicial proceedings. The mediation is a mode of dispute resolution, in which the parties can make an agreement, settle the case and resolve their conflict with the assistance of the mediator, who is a third party obliged to strict confidence. The last 3 years prove that more and more citizens resort to the court mediation services. According to the statistics most of the court mediation proceedings end with the agreement of the parties.

The decisions of various courts and authorities resolving legal disputes as well as certain claims based on certain documents must be enforced by way of judicial enforcement proceedings, a nonlitigous proceeding, The rules of court execution proceedings are laid down in Act LII of 1994 (hereinafter: Judicial Enforcement Act).

Judicial enforcement proceedings are of two stages, namely ordering and implementation of enforcement.

Enforcement proceedings are instituted at the request of the party requesting enforcement.

Competitions

György Mailáth Scientific Competition