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 Court   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
A court is an official, public forum which a public power establishes by lawful authority to adjudicate disputes, and to dispense civil, labour, administrative and criminal justice under the law.
Some courts may function with a jury that make decisions about the facts before the court under the direction of the judge; in other courts, decisions of both fact and law are made by the judge or judges, this is particularly common in appellate courts where juries are unusual in most jurisdictions.
The extent of a court's power to hear the various matters which come before it—its "jurisdiction"—may stem from a provision of a written constitution, from an enabling statute or, for example in English Law, it may be inherent, deriving from the Common Law origin of the court.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/C/Court.htm   (1181 words)

  
 Learn more about Hungary in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Republic of Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia.
Initially the history of Hungary was made in the triangle with Poland and Bohemia, with the many liasons with Popes and Emperrors of Holy Roman Empire.
Hungary's landscape consists mostly of the flat to rolling plains of the Carpathian Basin, with hills and lower mountains to the north along the Slovakian border (highest point: the Kékes at 1,014 m).
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /h/hu/hungary.html   (931 words)

  
 Permanent Mission of Hungary to the United Nations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The licence of Constitutional Court judges extends to examining the constitutionality of laws prior to their promulgation, a preliminary control even in the case of international contracts.
The Hungarian Court's authority also extends to subsequent control of laws after promulgation, to the examination of individual complaints, to interpreting the decrees of the Constitution, to deciding debates of authority between the state bodies, with the exception of the courts.
Constitutional Court President Laszlo Solyom said the reason for the change was the amendment of the constitution that came into force this summer.
www.un.int /hungary/971204kp.htm   (566 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Hungarian court rejects easing euthanasia laws
BUDAPEST – Hungary's constitutional court rejected on Monday a proposal to ease euthanasia laws in a ruling seen as a victory for the Roman Catholic church, which opposes so-called mercy killings.
The court ruled there was no need to change laws that make it illegal for individuals to end their lives with medical assistance, the national MTI news agency said.
Hungary is one of 10 states due to join the 15-nation European Union next year, where only Belgium and the Netherlands allow active euthanasia under strict conditions.
signonsandiego.com /news/world/20030428-0408-hungary-euthanasia.html   (170 words)

  
 News Archive Hungary's Top Court Rejects Legalizing Assisted Suicide
Hungary has allowed since 1997 a passive form of euthanasia, in which patients can refuse treatments which would extend their life.
She was intitially handed a two-year suspended sentence, but the supreme court overturned the decision, ruling that Binder had to go to jail for two years for manslaughter.
Following that case, constitutional jurist Albert Takacs and lawyer Ildiko Kmetty sued the constitutional court to rule that such cases should not be treated as manslaughter.
www.truthtv.org /newstext.asp?newsid=1326   (333 words)

  
 CIA - The World Factbook -- Field Listing - Judicial branch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Supreme Court (judges are appointed by the president); Constitutional Court (half of the judges appointed by the president and half appointed by the Chamber of Representatives)
Constitutional Court or Corte Costituzionale (composed of 15 judges: one-third appointed by the president, one-third elected by parliament, one-third elected by the ordinary and administrative Supreme Courts)
Constitutional Court; Court of Appeal; judges for both courts are appointed by the president on the advice of the prime minister
www.phatnav.com /factbook/fields/2094.html   (3816 words)

  
 List of constitutional courts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Constitutional Court is a high court found in many countries which deals primary with constitutional law.
Its main authority is to rule on whether or not challenged laws are in fact unconstitutional, and conflicting with constitutionally established rights and freedoms.
Many countries do not have separate constitutional courts, and instead delegate constitutional judicial authority to the Supreme Court.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Constitutional_Court   (131 words)

  
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The court ruled as unconstitutional the definition that common-law marriages were "those formed between adult men and women".
"The court gave a green light to the parliament and to the government to change the laws." Homeros was one of the groups that petitioned the court to give homosexuals the right to marry in 1993.
Romsauer said he was not concerned that the Constitutional Court barred homosexuals from registering their marriage.
www.qrd.org /qrd/world/europe/hungary/court.forces.same.sex.dp.rights   (384 words)

  
 Central and Eastern Europe
In 1956 the Central Committee of the WCC met in Hungary and discussed a report on "proselytism and religious liberty." A final version of this report was approved in 1961 at the third assembly of the WCC.
In Hungary both the Parliament and the Constitutional Court have struggled with questions of freedom of religion or belief and establishment.
In Decision 4/1993 the Hungarian Constitutional Court ruled that whenever the state returns school property back to church ownership, it must provide a "real alternative" for those parents who desire that their children attend a neutral public school.
www.christian-bible.com /Ethics/Rights/missnat.htm   (3661 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Hungary Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Initially the history of Hungary was made in the triangle with Poland and Bohemia, with the many liaisons with Popes and Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire.
In 1956, a revolt and announced withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact were met with a military intervention by the Soviet Union and led to the deposition and execution of prime minister Imre Nagy.
Hungary continues to demonstrate strong economic growth as one of the newest members of the European Union (since 2004).
www.ipedia.com /hungary.html   (1056 words)

  
 The Internet in the Service of Constitutionalism: Project CoCoNet
Constitutional courts in the postcommunist countries of Central and Eastern Europe have been either newly established or rebuilt on new democratic principles.
On the other hand, there is public interest in constitutional issues among lawyers and teachers who specialize in constitutional law, law students doing their Ph.D. research in this area, journalists writing about political cases, and ordinary citizens interested in the role of a constitutional court or the pictures and biographies of constitutional justices.
In this first stage, four courts were selected: (1) the Constitutional Court of Hungary, in Budapest; (2) the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic, in Kosice; (3) the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic, in Brno; and (4) the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, in Moscow.
www.isoc.org /inet97/proceedings/G7/G7_2.HTM   (2613 words)

  
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Here he engages not only in a defense of his Court's work but issues direct warnings to his successors that too great a deviation from the path laid down in the first nine years may be destructive of Hungary's constitutional fabric.
The former President refers extensively to his battle to assert the Constitutional Court's authority and legitimacy in the face of attacks by the established judiciary.
The Court's explication of human dignity, she demonstrates, owes much to preceding German constitutional jurisprudence in particular and to the values underlying "modern constitutionalism" more generally.
www.bsos.umd.edu /gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/halmai.htm   (1527 words)

  
 The Bulletin 4/3: CEELI Law Report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Constitutional Court of Hungary, by a 7-2 decision written by the President of the Court, struck down amendments to the law on agricultural cooperatives.
The court declared that the amendments violated the constitutional rights to a healthy environment and to the highest possible level of physical and spiritual health because they would take out of protection parts of the environment that had already been legally declared to be protected.
The level of such protection must be high according to objective standards, said the court, and once a certain level of protection has been accorded by the state, it cannot be withdrawn.
www.rec.org /REC/Bulletin/Bull43/CEELI.html   (785 words)

  
 IMPORTING THE LAW IN POST-COMMUNIST TRADITIONS: THE HUNGARIAN CONSTITUTIONAL COURT AND THE RIGHT TO HUMAN DIGNITY
In so doing, the Court replaced or reinterpreted the rights inherited from communism on the basis of human dignity…The new concept of rights developed by the Court led judges to nullify, almost systematically, the rules enacted under communism which were challenged before the Court (p.134).
Citing "modern constitutions" and their exemplification in the German model, the Hungarian Court, she suggests, adopted a convenient strategy for introducing Western conceptions of constitutionalism into a formerly Eastern bloc country, without the necessity to justify such a change in purely ideological or philosophical terms.
This is an interesting thesis, but again the point is stretched somewhat when she seeks to extend her argument, on the basis of a single case study, into a broader one concerning the contemporary characteristics of the process of legal globalisation generally.
www.bsos.umd.edu /gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/Dupre204.htm   (1571 words)

  
 LincOn.com-Legal Related Search Utilities:Foreign   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Latvia - Decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Latvia
Latvia - Decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Latvia - Decisions from 1997 to 1999
Slovenia - Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia
www.lincon.com /srlaw4.htm   (292 words)

  
 Important Victory for Native Hungarians - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
In a unanimous decision, the court said the bill would violate the constitutional guarantee of freedom of expression.
Perhaps it is because Hungary is rich in mineral waters, and they are buying land to secure an alternative water supply for their people in Palestine.
Hungary is truly a small country with a big heart.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=135013   (691 words)

  
 National Assembly of Hungary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The National Assembly of Hungary (Országgyűlés) is the national parliament of Hungary.
The Assembly includes 25 standing committees to debate and report on introduced bills and to supervise the activities of the ministers.
The Constitutional Court of Hungary has the right to challenge legislation on the grounds of constitutionality.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Assembly_of_Hungary   (250 words)

  
 ICL - Hungary Index
The ICL-edition of the Constitution is based on an improved (though inofficial) translation.
Dec 1997: Hungary invited to begin accession negotiations with the European Union at the European Council meeting in Luxembourg.
transforms, basically, the Stalinist Constitution in a new fundamental law, establishing the rule of law and democracy.
www.oefre.unibe.ch /law/icl/hu__indx.html   (359 words)

  
 Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 99047903   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Publisher description for Constitutional judiciary in a new democracy : the Hungarian Constitutional Court / Lâaszlâo Sâolyom and Georg Brunner ; with a foreword by Stephen G. Breyer.
This new Court has issued decisions on topics ranging from the establishment of democracy and a market economy--privatization, compensation for the nationalization of property, and retroactive criminal legislation--as well as such issues as the constitutionality of capital punishment, abortion, freedom of speech and the media, and the separation of powers.
Lazszló Solyom is President of the Constitutional Court of Hungary and Professor of Law, ELTE University of Budapest.
www.loc.gov /catdir/description/umich051/99047903.html   (321 words)

  
 Newsbrief: Hungarian High Court Overturns Drug Reforms
In a December 13 ruling, Hungary's Constitutional Court restricted the use of diversion to drug treatment for some drug offenders, narrowing the scope of reform legislation enacted in 2003.
In its opinion, the Constitutional Court appeared to embrace positions on addiction that are not supported by facts.
The court also reasoned paradoxically that drug use leads to the "loss of personal freedom" and therefore personal freedom may be abridged to fight it.
www.stopthedrugwar.org /chronicle/368/hungary.shtml   (776 words)

  
 Gay News From 365Gay.com
Hungary's Constitutional Court has already ruled that marriage is reserved for people of opposite sexes.
A spokesperson for the justice ministry said that as a result the government will use the term domestic partnership for same-sex couples.
Some gays and one opposition party are calling for the constitution to be amended to include specific references permitting same-sex marriage.
www.365gay.com /newscon05/03/030305hungary.htm   (317 words)

  
 Save the Danube Wetlands
Three Hungarian citizens have submitted the attached Petition to the Hungarian Constitutional Court.
Paragraph 5 of the Hungarian Constitution, which obliges the Government to safeguard the nation's territorial integrity.
Compromise Plan and the three blocks (in red), which the Court ruled illegal and the plan eliminates.
duna.org /danube/home.htm   (353 words)

  
 Kim Scheppele   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
From 1994-1998, she resided principally in Budapest where she spent two years (thanks to grants from the American National Science Foundation) carrying out a research project on the new constitutionalism at the Constitutional Court of Hungary.
Between 1996-1998, she was co-chair of the new department of gender studies at the Central European University in Budapest, the first place in the post-Soviet world to give graduate degrees in gender studies.
She is currently working on three books: one on the development of "courtocracy" in the aftermath of state socialism, one on abortion in comparative constitutional law, and one on legal fictions and the interpretation of legal facts.
www.lawandsociety.org /officers/scheppele.htm   (321 words)

  
 MINELRES - Hungary
Replies of the government of Hungary to the Concluding Observations.
Minority Self-Government in Hungary: Legislation and Practice, by Niamh Walsh.
Elections in Hungary: from the Centre for the Study of Public Policy (University of Strathclyde)
www.minelres.lv /count/hungary.htm   (444 words)

  
 Hungary
Hungary law resource page with links to the Hungary constitution, Hungary government, Hungary law firms, Hungary law, Hungary judiciary, Hungary legal research, Hungary legislature, and Hungary law guide.
Information about the constitution, election system, government, judiciary system, local governments, parliament, the president, and more.
Includes courts and case law, government, legislation, and more.
www.washlaw.edu /forint/europe/hungary.html   (249 words)

  
 Hungary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Provides information on the current state of crime in Hungary, the social harms of crime and social crime prevention strategies, including the prevention of recidivism and juvenile crime.
This website offers access to information from the Constitutional Court of Hungary, including case law, a bibliography, and links to legal sites.
This is the official site of the Supreme Court of Hungary.
andromeda.rutgers.edu /~wcjlen/WCJ/links/hungary.html   (137 words)

  
 Students Awarded Fulbright Grants
Recipients are chosen for their leadership potential and their proposals' importance to the general welfare of the world's inhabitants.
Arnaut's grant was awarded to fund a one-year of study of the Constitutional Court of Hungary.
His research will focus on the court's recent practice of judicial review.
www.law.berkeley.edu /news/2002/fulbright.html   (179 words)

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