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 National Office for the Judiciary (NOJ) - by possessing the knowlegde accumulated in the field of digitalisation of courts - could play a major role in Hungary’s information technology export. 

The number of lawsuits pending for more than two years has been reduced to half at national level – it is a point when we need to come to a halt and acknowledge the results of the judiciary. Therefore, the reporting season is an outstanding event, when it becomes clear what  tasks the courts are dealing with – said the President of the National Office for the Judiciary (NOJ) at the press conference prior to the general meeting of judges at the Tatabánya Regional Court.

In every field of life it is essential to be able to act in the service of community for the common interests, setting aside our private interests – highlighted the President of National Office for the Judiciary (NOJ) in her welcome speech at the handover of the renewed building of the Debrecen Administrative and Labour Court.

The 2018 summary report on the Open Courts Programme has been completed. In addition to attendances at court hearings and prison visits, mock trials were the most attractive ones for young people among the series of events organised within the framework of the Open Courts Programme – revealed last year’s report.

On 26 February 2019, the President of the National Office for the Judiciary (NOJ) negotiated the question of the new judicial remuneration system with Finance Minister Mihály Varga and dr. Pál Völner, Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Justice. At the meeting, Dr. Tünde Handó presented the NOJ’s proposal, which was continously developed in the course of eight months, taking into account the opinion of judges and court leaders, and was finally crystallized by the end of last year. 

During a five-month period 207 judges held 447 distant-hearings with the newly developed distant-hearing system. Penal institutions were the second most-used place for this purpose with 94 occasions, including 18 foreign spots.

The report of the president of the National Office for the Judiciary (NOJ) on the activity of the Office and the courts of Hungary in 2017 has been accepted by the Parliament. Dr. Tünde Handó was heard by the Committee of Justice of the Parliament, and the Parliament itself last December, on which occasion she described 2017 as the year of preparation, as on 1st January 2018 the new Civil Procedure Act (Pp.) and the Administrative Procedure Act (Kp.), while on 1st July 2018 the new Criminal Proc

The witness care and victim protection programme launched by the National Office for the Judiciary aims among others at providing witnesses summoned to court hearings with comprehensive and easily understandable information, ensuring a free-from-fear atmosphere for witness and victim testimonies and improving the conditions of questionings.

Last year, 80 percent of the bankruptcy and liquidation proceedings have already been launched by electronic means at the courts throughout the country. That means a total of 95 112 cases submitted electronically, which constitutes an increase of more than 60 percent compared with the year 2017.