On 1st January 2019, Érd District Court started to operate with eighteen judges who had previously worked at the District Court of either Budakörnyék or Budaörs. According to Dr. Tamás Gerber, President of Budapest Environs Regional Court, the balance of the first one and a half months is clearly positive: clients are very pleased with the new court, where they can deal with their cases quickly and in proper conditions thanks to the “Client Centre”.

The launch of Érd District Court, 14th District Court of Budapest Environs Regional Court is aimed at easier and simpler access to justice.

Remote hearing can simplify, speed up procedural actions in civil, economic, administrative and labor cases and make them more cost-effective.

President dr. János Áder appointed dr. Árpád Répássy as new Vice President of the National Office for the Judiciary (NOJ) from 1 October 2019.

President of the Republic János Áder appointed Attila Harangozó as vice-president of the National Office for the Judiciary (NOJ) on 6 February 2020.

With 133 votes in favor, 4 votes against and 23 abstention, the Parliament accepted the bill on the establishment of one-level district office procedures, also including the salary increase for prosecutors and judges at the plenary session on 17 December 2019.

The decision of the National Judicial Council initiating the removal of the President of the NOJ is unfounded.

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.

Combining traditions and modern architectural elements, creating court management functions – all these developments to court buildings are presented in the fresh special edition of the journal published by the National Office for the Judiciary (NOJ) in collaboration with Octogon.

Nearly half of the regional courts - along with presidents of district courts operating next to them - have rejected the radical move announced last week by the National Judicial Council (NJC). 

Dr. Péter Tatár-Kis was appointed by the President of the National Office for the Judiciary (NOJ) for the leadership of the Budapest-Capital Regional Court for a one-year term.

On the opening day of the training for local court leaders at the Hungarian Academy of Justice, dr. Tünde Handó, the President of the National Office for the Judiciary (NOJ) expressed that leadership approach, awareness, and a broadened-mind vision is an expectation for court leaders. Training focuses primarily on social skills, so-called soft skills.

District courts reduced the number of cases pending for more than two years from 10,110 in 2010 to 5,772, and the first-instance councils of regional courts managed to reduce 3,635 cases in 2010 to 1,771 by the end of 2018.

A Werbőczy Mundus scholar will spend his internship at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg for the first time in history. Starting in September a Hungarian lawyer will spend several months at the Strasbourg-based European institution along with his fellows working at the Academy of European Law (ERA) in Trier and at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Luxembourg.

In the first quarter of 2019, the soundness of criminal judgments has further increased in the district courts, where 75.1% of all criminal cases were finished. 78.8% of the judgments have become final already at first instance.

I have always kept the laws, I am ready for any inspection because it will only verify that I am performing my tasks with the moral decency it requires – claimed dr. Tünde Handó, President of the National Office for the Judiciary (NOJ) at the general meeting of judges reacting to the actions taken by the National Judicial Council (NJC). On Wednesday the NJC decided to turn to the Hungarian National Assembly to initiate the removal of the President of the NOJ from office.