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.

Tájékoztató a Kúria Bt.III.750/2019/21-es számú ügyben kihirdetett ítéletéről.

A Digitális Bíróság fejlesztéseivel a magyar bírói szervezet csillaga a digitális égbolton is fényesen ragyoghat – mondta dr. Handó Tünde, az Országos Bírósági Hivatal elnöke a Digitális Nyílt Nap road-show következő állomásán, a Tatabányai Törvényszéken 2018. november 23-án. Hozzátette, a digitalizáció terén nagyon nagy a verseny, a bíróságok nem maradhatnak le.

The extraordinary suspension of judicial activities – in effect since the 15th of March 2020 - has ended. According to Government Decree 74/2020 (III.19.)  on certain procedural measures prevailing during the state of danger the courts also operate during the state of danger, however, the measures to protect the health of court staff and clients in the current epidemiological situation must continue to be complied.

Some so-called “revolutionary” members of the not so legitimate National Judicial Council (NJC) are still making false accusations against the president of the NOJ. Their only goal is to create chaos as big as possible around the courts.

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.

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.

More than 2 million electronic submissions were received by the courts between 1 January 2013 and 1 January 2018. In the civil law area (civil, economic, administrative and labour cases) 1 275 676 while in the non-litigious cases (bankruptcy, liquidation, enforcement, other non-litigious civil cases, registration of civil organizations) 333 751, in criminal and criminal offence cases 451,410 submissions were received in the above mentioned period of time.

This year the annual two-week-long, short-term program by the European Judicial Training Network was held from the 16th of September. The Hungarian judiciary welcomed foreign judges from all around Europe. This year there were 12 participants from Germany, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Finland, France, Poland and Estonia. The programs took place in Budapest on the first week, and then in Debrecen and Győr on the second week.