Dr. Péter DARÁK, President of the Curia of Hungary convoked the Plenary Session of Curia judges on the 2nd of March 2015.
At the beginning of the meeting, the President of the Curia acknowledged the achievements of persons of eminence in the field of the Hungarian judiciary in respect of the year 2014. Within this framework, he bestowed an “Amicus Curiae” medallion – which was first bestowed in 2013 – on Dr. Péter PACZOLAY, former President of the Constitutional Court, the “Judge of the Curia in 2014” medallion on Mr. Árpád Gábor OROSZ, head of panel at the Civil Department and the “Official of the Curia in 2014” medallion on Ms. Lajosné NACSA, administrative assistant of Labour Panel noI at the Administrative and Labour Department.
Subsequently, according to a tradition that has continued since the reestablishment of the Curia as of the 1st of January 2012 and that enables Curia judges to improve their understanding of the work and experience of other judicial panels, the participants of the Plenary Session heard two heads of panels – Ms. Marianna STARK, head of Labour Panel noII at the Administrative and Labour Department, and Mr. György KOZMA, head of the Municipality Panel of the Administrative and Labour Department – reporting on the adjudicating activities of their respective panels.
At the end of the Plenary Session, Dr. Mátyás BENCZE, associate professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Debrecen delivered a lecture with an international dimension on the possible methods of the assessment of the quality of the reasoning of judgements.
Budapest, the fourth of March 2015
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