Upon the invitation of the Melbourne Law School and the Federal Court of Australia, from 10 to 20 March 2018 the President of the Curia of Hungary paid an official visit to Melbourne.
Péter Darák gave lectures on tax law at the Law School, the Federal Court of Australia and the Hungarian Lawyers Society.
Budapest, the 19th of March 2018
Press Secretariat of the Curia of Hungary
The representatives of the Curia of Hungary and the supreme judicial forum of the Dominican Republic have met for the very first time. The President of the Curia received in his office, on 13 April 2018, Mr. Francisco Antonio Ortega Polanco, Justice of the Supreme Court of the Dominican Republic. The meeting was also attended by Ms. Anita Dezső, Honorary Consul Candidate of the Dominican Republic.
As part of a traditional series of joint professional meetings between the representatives of the Curia of Hungary and the Supreme Court of the Republic of Austria, a judicial seminar, organised by the Curia, was held in Pannonhalma, Hungary on 10 April 2018. The seminar’s criminal and civil law sections were attended by Hungarian and Austrian supreme court judges specialised in criminal and civil law respectively.
The Curia of Hungary and the Supreme People’s Court of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam concluded, on 26 March 2018 in Budapest, a Memorandum of Understanding on Judicial Co-operation on the basis of the principle of reciprocity. The co-operation aims at further strengthening the several-year-long professional relationship between the two supreme judicial forums, as well as exchanging best practices and experiences originating from the development of the two countries’ judicial and court systems.
Dr. Péter Darák, President of the Curia participated at the European Court of Human Rights’ solemn hearing for the opening of the judicial year and a preceding seminar on 26 January 2018 in Strasbourg.
The seminar was attended by many prominent representatives of the European countries’ judicial systems, including Supreme Court presidents and Constitutional Court presidents, and focused on the topic of “The Authority of the Judiciary”.