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LIBERTIES RULE OF LAW REPORT 2023 HUNGARY #ROLREPORT2023

21 Feb 2023

This is true both in terms of the strength of the role of the National Judicial Council and the exercise of the appointments and other administrative powers of the Curia, the Supreme Court of Hungary. [...] Varga has also introduced an Every year, the NJC reviews and gives its unforeseeable element in the evaluation of the opinion on the appointment practice of the applications, which has led to the outcome of President of the Curia, the Supreme Court of some applications being decided not on the Hungary. [...] The campaign was are, in practice, determined by the personal joined by the President of the Curia, who said interpretation of the law by the respective the judges had broken the law by meeting the President of the NOJ. [...] However, the result of this is that the facing the independence of the judiciary is that supervised entity’s interpretation of the law the legal framework governing the organisa- is what decides what is and is not within the tion and functioning of the NJC does not give powers of the body, in regards to supervising them sufficient powers to supervise the activ- it. [...] Nor did the President of the NOJ allow access to the file of the Access to justice investigation launched against the head of the largest Hungarian court, Péter Tatár-Kis, the Access to justice presents similar problems as President of the Metropolitan Court.
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