A Plenary Session of Curia judges, convoked by Mr. Péter DARÁK, President of the Curia of Hungary, was held on the 24th of November 2014.
At the beginning of the meeting, the President of the Curia greeted Mr. Gábor SOMOGYI who has been serving as a Curia judge as of the first of September 2014 after his transfer from the Metropolitan Tribunal of Budapest. Mr. DARÁK then proceeded to give instruments of appointment over to selected members of the Curia who were appointed as Curia counsellors on the first of November 2014. The title of “Curia counsellor” was bestowed by the President of the National Office for the Judiciary on three heads of panel of the Curia, namely on Mr. József BELEGI, Mr. Zoltán BUZINKAY and Mr. Zoltán KÁRPÁTI for their twenty-year long judicial career within the Curia and its legal predecessor, the Supreme Court.
During the second part of the meeting, the participants heard lectures on issues related to the taking of expert evidence.
The above topic was covered by Mr. DARÁK’s introductory speech and by lectures delivered by Secretary of State Mr. Gergely PATYI on behalf of Justice Minister Mr. László TRÓCSÁNYI, by Head of Department Ms. Erika CSÓRÉ PAJCSICSNÉ on behalf of Ombudsman Mr. László SZÉKELY, by Head of Panel Mr. Ambrus MOLNÁR on behalf of the Curia, who heads the Curia’s jurisprudence-analysing working group on the taking of expert evidence, and by Judge and Head of Panel Mr. Béla WIRTH from the County Tribunal of Pécs, who is commissioned by the National Office for the Judiciary to carry out an examination on the judicial expert system.
Budapest, the twenty-sixth of November 2014
Press Office of the Curia of Hungary