Kriszta Kovacs analyzes the past twenty years' Constitutional Court jurisprudence on Article 70/A prohibiting discrimination. In addition to providing a general overview of the concept of equal treatment, she critically assesses the tests used by the Court and their inconsistent application in the case-law. The author also gives an in-depth assessment of some important areas of discrimination, such differential treatment on the ground of race and ethnicity, sex, religion, and examines the notion of 'other ground' and the situations falling under it.
András Kádár reviews the evolution of Hungarian criminal procedure in the light of constitutional and European human rights standards, with special emphasis on the role of the prosecutor at the trial, the presence of the defense attorney during the investigation and the need of efficient representation of indigent defendants.
András Hanák discusses the twenty years jurisprudence of the Hungarian Constitutional Court on both criminal and civil law limitation of freedom of expression. The study assesses freedom of expression as one of the most developed, but also controversial area of the Court's praxis.
Balázs D. Tóth explains that although the Hungarian Constitutional Court is a typical continental constitution review body, it has been following principles of precedent in its jurisprudence. Using foreign examples he shows that the doctrine of precedent is a principle which may be derived from the Hungarian Constitution.
The column contains the edited version of a discussion held in September, 2009 about the means of militant democracy, with special regards to the criminal prohibition of the Holocaust denial. The participants of the debate were: László Karsai, historian of the University of Szeged, Károly Bárd and Eszter Polgári, lawyers at the Central European University, Tamás Lattmann, professor at the Eötvös Loránd University Law School, and Éva Simon, attorney of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union. The discussion was moderated by Gábor Halmai, editor-in-chief of Fundamentum.
Köbel Szilvia ebben a tanulmányában az Alkotmánybíróság 2009. április 21-én, a köztisztviselői eskü kérdésével foglalkozó határozatát elemezte. A határozattal kapcsolatban két kérdést vizsgált meg közelebbről: a köztisztviselői eskü fordulatával kapcsolatos kérdéseket, illetve az "eskü" kifejezés használatával kapcsolatos antidiszkriminációs problémákat. A kommentárjában végül arra jutott, hogy vallási alapon történő közvetett diszkriminációt valósít a köztisztviselői eskü jelenlegi szabályozása, mert nem biztosít alternatívát a nazarénus felekezet tagjai számára.
We present summaries of the latest decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, of the Hungarian Constitutional Court, of the decisions of the German Federal Constitutional Court on the Lisbon Treaty, and on the constitutionality of the criminalization of expressions and demonstrations glorifying the Nazi regime decided by the same Court.
In her essay, Lilla Farkas, an emblematic figure of the Hungarian Roma rights protection presents a subjective overview of the experiences of the Roma rights NGOs. She evaluates the different strategies followed by these NGOs, and provides an account of the cases litigated by her, the successes and the failures, and also highlights the areas where the legal environment might change in the future. ■
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