Dr. DARÁK Péter
President of the Curia of Hungary



Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION
1982-1987 Janus Pannonius University, Pécs, Faculty of Law
2004-2007 Doctoral program of the Faculty of Law of Janus Pannonius University

CAREER
1987 Clerk at the Prosecutor's Office in Zalaegerszeg (a county town in Western Hungary)
1990 Prosecutor at the Prosecutor's Office in Zalaegerszeg
1991 Judge at the Local Court of Zalaegerszeg (hearing administrative and civil cases)
1997 Group leader at the Local Court of Zalaegerszeg (hearing administrative cases)
1999 Judge assigned temporarily to the Administrative Division of the Supreme Court of Hungary
2000 Judge at the Administrative Division of the Supreme Court of Hungary
2002 Judge assigned temporarily to the Civil Law Department of the Ministry of Justice
2003 Judge at the Administrative Division of the Supreme Court of Hungary
2012 President of the Curia of Hungary

PROFESSIONAL COMMISSIONS
2001 to date Member of the codification committee of the Civil Code
2002 to date Chair of the National Association of Administrative Judges
2003 to date Representative of the Supreme Court of Hungary at the EU Forum of Judges for the Environment, then a member of its board
2003 to date Chair of the Public and Administrative Law Department of the Association of Hungarian Lawyers
2004 to date Secretary at the Deák Ferenc Prize Board
2009 to date Member of the final exam committee at the Faculty of Law of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest and at Széchenyi István University
2009 to date Member of the editorial board of New Hungarian Public Administration and Law-State-Policy
2010 to date Member of the International Association of Tax Judges

TEACHING AND ACADEMIC POSITIONS
1999 Training of judges organised by the Office of the National Council of Justice
2000-2004 Postgraduate e-learning teaching at the College of Finance and Accounting
2001 Program director of the legal training of traders in real estates at the Faculty of Law of Pázmány Péter University
2001 Assistant lecturer, then senior lecturer at the Financial Law Department of Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Law
2010 Training at Széchenyi István College for Advanced Studies

LANGUAGES
Fluent German, intermediate English.

AWARDS
2009 Memorial certificate acknowledging high-quality training awarded on the occasion of the anniversary of Pázmány Péter University

PUBLICATIONS

Books (authored or co-authored)
Richter-(innen) in der Alpen-Adria Region. Wien, 1993.
Alkotmány a gyakorlatban. (The constitution in practice.) HVG-ORAC, 2004.
Az ingatlan jogi kézikönyve. (Legal handbook of the real estate.) KJK-KERSZÖV, 2004.
Gyakorló jogászként az Európai Unióban. (Being a practising lawyer in the European Union.) HVG-ORAC, 2004.
A KET magyarázata. (The explanation of the law on the procedure of administrative authorities.) UNIÓ, 2005.
Közigazgatási eljárások. (Procedures of public administration.) Magyar Közigazgatási Intézet, 2005.
A közigazgatási bíráskodás gyakorlati kérdései. (The practical issues of administrative jurisdiction.) OITH, 2006.
Europaische Justizsysteme - Öffentlich-rechtliche Gerichtsbarkeiten in der EU. Wolters Kluwer, München, 2006.
Pénzügyi jog II. (Financial Law, Part Two.) Osiris, 2007.
A vagyonnyilatkozat és a vagyongyarapodási vizsgálat jogi, módszertani kérdései. (The legal and methodological aspects of examining disclosures of personal assets and asset increment.) Complex, 2009.
A közigazgatási eljárások szabályait értelmező felsőbírósági döntések 2005-2010. (Judicial decisions interpreting the rules of administrative procedure, 2005-2010.) Complex, 2010.

Articles
A versenyjogi szabályozás kérdőjelei. (Questions in competition law regulation.) Ügyészségi Értesítő, 1990/2.
Versenyjogi szilánkok. (Splinters of competition law.) Magyar Jog, 1990/11.
A közigazgatás hallgatása elleni bírói védelem. (The competence of the judge in the case of inactive public administration.) Magyar Közigazgatás, 1995/11.
Gondolatok az építésügyi bírságról. (Thoughts on construction fines.) Magyar Közigazgatás, 1999/11.
Befolyásolja-e az általános forgalmi adó alapját az árengedmény? (Does the discount price have an effect on the basis of VAT?) Számvitel-Adó-Könyvvizsgálat, 2002/6.
A jogi személyek egységes nyilvántartása. (Uniform registration of legal persons.) Gazdaság és Jog, 2002/9.
A közigazgatási határozatok bírósági felülvizsgálatának új szabályozása. (The new regulation of judicial review of administrative decisions.) Jogász vándorgyűlés (19.), 2003.
A közigazgatási eljárás új szabályairól. (On the new rules of public administration.) Ügyvédek Lapja, 2005/3.
A közigazgatási perek és nemperes eljárások új rendjéről. (On the new rules of litigious and non-litigious administrative procedures.) Ügyvédek Lapja, 2006/2.
A normakontroll hatáskörök megosztása az Alkotmánybíróság és a közigazgatási bíróság között. (Sharing the power of constitutional control between the Constitutional Court and administrative jurisdiction.) Alkotmánybírósági Szemle, 2010. (With Andras PATYI as co-author.)

Presentations at the following forums
The meetings of the Association of Hungarian Lawyers (Sopron 2001, 2003, 2005, Balatonfüred 2002, Budapest 2003, Szekszárd 2004, Szolnok 2005)
Conferences of the Hungarian Competition Authority (Budapest 2003, 2004)
Conference organised for the tenth anniversary of Hungarian public procurement organised by the Public Procurement Council
Conferences of the Association of Hungarian Administrative Judges (Veszprém 1997, Győr 1999, Budapest 2006, 2011)
German Judicial Academy (Wustrau 2001, 2011)
The Administrative Court of Giessen, in the framework of "Europa-Woche", 2006.
The Social Court of Drezden, 2009.
Conference entitled "The political transformation 20 years ago", organised by Eötvös Loránd University, 2010
Fifth International Tax Conference, organised by the Association of Hungarian Qualified Tax Experts, 2011
Conference of the Hungarian branch of IFA, 2011

Futher information:
www.darak.hu


Dr. KOZMA György
Head of the Administrative Department


KOZMA György was born on 7th August 1949 in Budapest. He graduated at the University of Pécs, Faculty of Law in 1978, and after he passed his professional examination as legal counsel.

In 1978 he started his career in the Ministry of Light Industries, from 1980 until 1986 he served at the Administrative and Legal Department of the Ministry of Industry as legal counsel. He was appointed head of division in 1986, and vice head of department in 1988. Between 1980 and 1990 he represented the Ministry as a government agent before the courts and other state authorities.

On 1st April 1990 he was appointed judge at the Administrative Department of the Supreme Court. He became head of chamber upon temporary mandate on 1st of November 1994, shortly after he was appointed head of chamber on 1st of July 1995. From 1993 onwards he has been assisting the Administrative Department in organizing and coordinating its theoretical guiding activities. As a member of the uniformity chamber, he has been preparing several court opinions and uniformity decisions. On 1st of February 2008, he was appointed head of the Administrative Department by the National Council of Justice for a period of six years.

He is an elected member of the second instance disciplinary tribunal of the Supreme Court. He is a founding member of the Association of Hungarian Administrative Judges.

Since 1986 he has been participating in the work of the professional examination committee, specialized in economic law and later in administrative law. Upon request of the examination committee, he contributed to the preparation of examination papers in the field of administrative law. Since 1979 he has been broadly involved in scientific and educational activities. Between 1979 and 1985 he was invited lecturer at the School of State Administration. He was a founding member of the Deák Ferenc Post-graduate Training Institute of Law in 1992 in Budapest. As secretary general, he was in charge of organizing the scientific and educational activities of the Training Institute, as well as preparing the post-graduate training program offered to lawyers of different specialization. From 1998 he has been giving lectures as assistant professor at the Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Law. He also took part in the establishment of the Faculty's Post-graduate Training Institute, and until 2004 he was coordinating the post-graduate training programs as deputy head of the Institute. He has been examining graduate students at final examinations of the Chair in Administrative Law.

He has been the author or co-author of several works on civil society organizations, foundations, local self-governments, public sector tenders, and that of commentaries on civil and administrative procedural rules. Upon request of the Office of the National Council of Justice in 1999, he prepared a methodological guidebook for administrative judges. Furthermore, he has been giving lectures within the framework of further training programs provided for judges.

In 2006 he was awarded the Deák Ring, subsequently in 2007 he received the Juhász Andor Prize.



Dr KÓNYA István
Head of the Criminal Department

Kónya István was born in 1954 in Budapest. Graduating from the Faculty of Law with cum laude qualification in 1979, he became a trainee at the Military Court of Budapest. In 1981 he was appointed judge and he started his judicial career at the Military Court of Szeged (a town in the southern part of Hungary), where he dealt with military crimes, crimes of traffic, crimes against life, office and property. In 1991 he was appointed judge at the Supreme Court, where he has been head of chamber since 2000. In 2002 the National Council of Justice appointed him head of the Criminal Department of the Supreme Court. In 2008 he was re-appointed head of the Criminal Department for a period of six years.

Since 1997 he has been an examiner of the professional exam committee. He is president of the committee of state exam at the Faculty of Law in Szeged. He is co-author of the Commentary to Hungarian Criminal Law and the Commentary to the Rules of Criminal Procedure. Since 1998 he has been a member of the editorial board of Court Decisions and since 2002 that of the Official Corpus of Supreme Court Decisions, both are publications of the Supreme Court. He has participated in passing twenty uniformity decisions, out of which he was the judge rapporteur of five cases.

Dr WELLMANN György
Head of the Civil Department

WELLMANN György was born in 1954. He graduated from the Faculty of Law in Budapest in 1978 and was awarded a degree with 'summa cum laude' qualification. He started his professional career as a trainee prosecutor and having passed the professional exam in 1980, he worked as a prosecutor in civil cases at the Municipal Prosecutor's and the Prosecutor General's Office. In 1987 he was deputy head of the Legal Department of the Ministry of Finance. He joined the judiciary in 1988 when he was elected a judge at the Supreme Court. Since then he has been a member of the Civil Department hearing various cases of contractual law. In February 2002 he was appointed head of chamber, and at the same time the deputy head of the Civil Department for a period of six years. In February 2008 the National Council of Justice appointed him head of the Civil Department. In this post he manages the professional activity of the economic, civil and labour branches of the Civil Department.

In the years of 1988 and 1997 he took part in drafting the acts on business associations and he is again a member of the codification committee working on the new act on business associations. For two decades now he has been regularly publishing studies in the field of civil and corporation law in professional periodicals and he has been the co-author of more than ten professional books and commentaries. He has been a member of the editorial board of the periodical entitled Economy and Law for years, and since 2004 he has been a member of the editorial board of the two periodicals of the Supreme Court (Court Decisions and Official Corpus of Supreme Court Decisions).

He gave lectures at the Department of Civil Law at the University of Law in Budapest throughout seven years. He is at present a member of the state examination committee in the field of civil law at two faculties of law in Budapest. Since 1988 he has been participating in post-graduate training as a lecturer in the field of corporation law at the Post-graduate Training Institute of Law in Budapest. In 2003 he was awarded the title 'honorary assistant professor' for his educational activities. For almost twenty years he has been a member of the professional exam committee. He is a member of the Hungarian Lawyers' Association and the Association of Hungarian Judges.

Dr TÖRÖK Judit
Deputy Head of the Civil Department

TÖRÖK Judit was born in 1953 in Debrecen. She accomplished her law studies at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest in 1976. Having passed the professional exam in 1978, on 1 January 1979 she was appointed judge in charge of civil cases at the Local Court of Vác. From 1985 to 1988 she worked at the Local Court of Szombathely as a civil law judge and in 1988 she moved to the Municipal Court of Budapest, where she examined cases of liquidation, administrative cases and from 1991 she heard contract cases and cases of business associations at the second instance. In 1993 she was entrusted with disciplinary cases of public notaries for a period of three years at the Municipal Court of Budapest. In 1995 she was transferred to the economic department of the Supreme Court and following her successful application she was appointed judge at the Supreme Court on 1 October 1995. In 2002 she was promoted head of chamber in the civil department of the Court and on 1 November 2009 she was appointed deputy head of the civil department for six years.

In the course of her judicial work she has become familiar with numerous fields of law, including family law, contract law, the law of business associations, bankruptcy and liquidation. Regular professional training is an integral part of her work. She regularly attended the English language courses and the courses of European civil and commercial law organised formerly by the National Council of Justice, and later on by the Hungarian Judicial Academy. In order to acquire up-to-date methodology, she completed a course for trainers at the Academy in 2007. She has been a regular participant in the events of the European Commercial Judges Forum since 2003. In May 2007 she took part in a European comparative law course organised by the General Council of the Judiciary of Spain. In April 2008 she had the opportunity to examine the functioning of the judicial system of Great Britain due to a scholarship of the European Judicial Training Network. She is a regular trainer at the courses of the Hungarian Judicial Academy in the field of bankruptcy and liquidation procedures, and she is a lecturer in the field of insolvency law at the Civil Procedure Department of Eötvös Loránd University and Deák Ferenc Postgraduate Institute of Pázmány Péter Catholic University. She has been the co-author of several handbooks on bankruptcy and liquidation procedures. She has been a member of the professional exam committee since 2003 and she is a member of the Hungarian Association of Judges, as well as of the Association of Economic Judges.