The government called the Ministry of Justice to prepare a proposal for a substantial salary increase for all judges, in cooperation with the Ministry of Finance and the National Office for the Judiciary (NOJ) - announced the Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office on 13 December 2018. At this week’s Government Info, Gergely Gulyás called the current judicial salaries unworthy and said that the Cabinet intends to introduce a new wage bill by January 1, 2020 at the latest.

In December 2018, 44 judges held a total of 103 remote hearings, which means a seven-fold increase compared to the first month, September. The hearings took place on 88 occasions in the penitentiary, in 7 cases in the courtroom, and 8 times from abroad. During the period under review, 67 accused, 22 convicted persons or other parties, 2 persons under proceedings, 2 civil litigants and 10 witnesses were heard with the help of the new equipment.

Seven years after signing their joint declaration, representatives of state institutions and organizations have evaluated their last year's anti-corruption activity in the Parliament.

Last year, a new Code of Civil Procedure, Code of Administrative Litigation and Code of Criminal Procedure entered into force and the scope of court cases to be dealt with by electronic means was also extended – recounted the English-language report of the National Office for the Judiciary on the court system in the first half of 2018.

What makes a judge a master of judgment? What is the role of justice in society? In addition to practical and administrative issues, such topics requiring deeper thinking have been discussed in the course of the training organized at the Hungarian Academy of Justice for civil judges appointed for a limited period of time. Thirty judges and fifteen assistant judges are taking part in the first training for the new generation target group between 4-8 February. 

Dr. Gabriella Kiss has been entrusted with the presidential tasks at the Szeged Regional Court of Appeal starting from 1st April for a fixed period of one year – announced Dr. Tünde Handó, President of the National Office for the Judiciary (NOJ), at the judicial general meeting.

In the last 7 years we have had the opportunity to make such developments in infrastructure that have been missing since the beginning of the 20th century, and further developments will follow in the future, "said the President of the National Office for the Judiciary (NOJ) in her sixth annual parliamentary report of the year 2017.

Trust building is the central topic of the International Conference on Courts and Communication, organized annually by the National Office for the Judiciary, for the seventh occasion this year.

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.

The organizers of InfoSpace have brought together the most influential organizations, public institutions and business associations in the country to present their latest developments and future innovations for the tenth time this year.