Remodelling the System of Legal Protection in Hungary

Abstract

The study presents how the system of legal protection since the turn of the 1980sand 1990s, as a consequence of the changed international, political and economic circumstances, has been transformed in Hungary according to the requirements of a modern constitutional state. Giving information on the relevant historical-legal antecedents in Hungary, the then arising practical exigencies and different recently applied models in Western democracies, taken as starting points during the elaboration of the reform, the pros and cons of the latters,the study analyses the solutions introduced at the time of the change of the political-economicregime, their later developments, as well as the present-day system of legal protection in Hungary, making mentions of problems, too, which arise in some respects even nowadays. Taking all these into account, a comprehensive information is given in thestudy on the establishment of the Parliamentary Commissioners for Civic Rights and of the ConstitutionalCourt in Hungary, on the prosecutor's (procurator's) offices and courts of justice, focusingon the relating constitutional principles, their organisation, competences, guarantees of independenceand staff problems alike.