A great number of petitions reached the Hungarian Constitutional Court concerning the November 2010 constitutional amendments that sought to curtail the Court‟s powers and allow for the possibility of implementing a tax measure with retroactive effect. In their decision 61/2011. (VII. 13.), which was accompanied by three dissenting and three concurring opinions, the judges of the Court refused to perform a review of the substance of these amendments. At the same time, however – and this was a first in the Court‟s judicial practice –, they undertook an investigation concerning the question whether these amendments were valid constitutionally in terms of the procedure that led to their adoption, even if they did not find that the petition was well-grounded in this regard. The three dissenting judges, however, believed that an examination of the merits was also necessary, and two of them would have nullified the impugned constitutional amendments, which they thought – albeit to differing degrees – unconstitutional.