Applications from thirty-five court leaders have been assessed and evaluated by the National Office for the Judiciary (NOJ) until October 31st.

The Hungarian team has prepared an excellent written project at the 4-day-long championship, organized by the European Judicial Training Network (EJTN). The team of trainee judges has returned home with a medal and a certificate, along with the judges’ praise for their thoughtful opinions and written work.

At the meeting, György Senyei emphasized that the Czech Republic and Hungary are linked not only by their geographical proximity and common history, but also by the Roman and Continental legal roots of the two legal systems, as well as the simultaneous change of regime and accession to the European Union.

In the THEMIS competition organized by the European Judicial Training Network (EJTN), the Hungarian team has never achieved such a big success before. The trio made up of dr. Franciska Zsófia Gyuranecz, dr. Dorottya Papp and dr. Bernadett Krausz trainee judges won semi-final D in Sofia, Bulgaria, and received a special prize for the best visual performance. The team tutored by judge dr. Bálint Kovács wrote their paper on judicial ethics and professional conduct dealing with the relation between

A 2023. március 7. és április 30. napja közötti soros, majd az ezt követően a szeptember 1. és november 30. napja közötti soron kívüli ülnökválasztás alkalmával a választó szervek nem tudtak elegendő számú ülnököt választani, ezért az Országos Bírósági Hivatal elnöke a bírák jogállásáról és javadalmazásáról szóló 2011. évi CLXII törvény (Bjt.) 217. § (4) bekezdése alapján soron kívüli ülnökválasztás kiírását kezdeményezte a köztársasági elnöknél. 

The National Office for the Judiciary (NOJ) is hosting a Conference celebrating the 15th anniversary of Hungary’s accession to the European Union on 27 May 2019, where dr. Tünde Handó, President of the NOJ and Tamás Vargha, state secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade will give solemn opening speeches. 

The President of the National Office for the Judiciary acted in accordance with the law in the assessment of applications for judicial posistions in 2018.

Az Országos Bírósági Hivatal (OBH) elnöke, dr. Handó Tünde 2018-ban 284 bírói és 47 bírósági vezetői álláshelyre kiírt pályázat elbírálásában vett részt. Az OBH angolul is megjelentette az erről szóló tájékoztatókat.

The Regional Court of Appeal of Szeged has appointed the concrete days of the second instance hearing in the criminal case (so-called case of „Death-Truck of Parndorf”) that started because of homicide and other criminal actions against L. S. and his 13 fellow defendants.

The President of the National Office for the Judiciary acted in accordance with the law in the assessement of applications for court leader posistions in 2018.

The second instance hearing in the so-called case of „Death-Truck of Parndorf” has been continued with the last-word-statements of the defendants on 14th June at the Regional Court of Appeal of Szeged. The 6th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 13th, and 14th defendants, who were not involved in the transport of Parndorf made a full confession and expressed his deepest regret in the felony of continuous man-smuggling.

At its meeting on 5 June 2019, the Committee of Ministers of the CE, which oversees the implementation of the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) of Strasbourg, discussed the Hungarian steps taken to implement the Gazsó-judgment related to the length of procedures.

Dr. Tünde Handó, President of the National Office for the Judiciary (NOJ) and Péter Szíjjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade have concluded a cooperation agreement on 17 April 2019. According to the agreement, Hungarian courts will contribute in the development of Hungary’s digitial export. The agreement is based on the achievements of the NOJ in court digitalization, which was acknowledged  by the European Commission in its annual justice scoreboard.