Hungarian minister: Hungary’s justice system ‘one of the most independent’
Hungary’s justice system is highly advanced in terms of its independence and it is completely independent of the government, the justice minister told a conference in Budapest on Thursday.
Bence Tuzson said the independence of the judiciary was a priority in Hungary and consultations with the European Union had yielded “serious changes”, the effects of which were still in question. The justice ministry, on the other hand, stood ready for negotiations, he told an international conference organised by the Kúria’s (supreme court) István Werbőczy Research Institute.Tuzson said judicial independence entailed judges doing their work free from interference and only being subordinated to laws. But a judge’s work, he added, must not happen in isolation from society, as was sometimes the case in the EU. Meanwhile, the minister questioned whether the right to a fair trial was fully enforced at the European court of justice.Photo: MTIAndrás Zs Varga, the Kúria’s head, said the domestic basis of judicial independence had been assessed, and now it was time to deal with its international aspects, too. He also said a judge should not tolerate interference in his work in court and no one else should have sway over it.Read also:
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