Chief Prosecutor of Hungary

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The Chief Prosecutor (Hungarian: Legfőbb ügyész, also known as the attorney general) is an official who is charged with prosecuting cases at a national level in Hungary. The chief prosecutor is elected by qualified majority of the parliament to 6 year terms, has a fixed office budget, and has no government oversight. The office of chief prosecutor has evolved into a separate branch of the government of Hungary since 1989.

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History and function

The independent pillar status of the Hungarian public accuser's office is a unique construction, loosely modeled on the system Portugal introduced after the 1974 victory of the Carnation Revolution. The public accuser (attorney general) body has become the fourth column of Hungarian democracy only in recent times: after communism fell in 1989, the office was made independent by a new clausule XI. of the Constitution. The change was meant to prevent abuse of state power, especially with regards to the use of false accusations against opposition politicians, who may be excluded from elections if locked in protracted or excessively severe court cases.

To prevent the Hungarian accuser's office from neglecting its duties, natural human private persons can submit investigation requests, called "pótmagánvád" directly to the courts, if the accusers' office refuses to do its job. Courts will decide if the allegations have merit and order police to act in lieu of the accuser's office if warranted. In its decision No.42/2005 the Hungarian constitutional court declared that the government does not enjoy such privilege and the state is powerless to further pursue cases if the public accuser refuses to do so.

Structure

Organizational Structure

The prosecutor's bodies of the Republic of Hungary

  • National level:
    • General Prosecutor's Office (Army Chief, the Military Appellate Prosecutor's Office, Central Detective Chief)
  • regional level:
    • Appellate chief prosecution offices
    • Territorial Military Prosecutor's Office (General Prosecution power to operate them, covering several counties)
  • provincial (municipal) level:
    • chief prosecution offices (Public Prosecutor's Investigator)
  • local (capital district) level:
    • local (District) Public Prosecutors
    • The National Institute of Criminology for scientific and research body, the Hungarian Ügyészképző Centre and the profession by training in preparation.

The Supreme Public Prosecutor

The General Prosecutor's Office is located at the top of the prosecutor's bodies, based in Budapest here. departments, classes and groups of heads. Monthly official journal of the Public Prosecutor's Gazette. The attorney general is under the direct supervision of[1]:

  • Cabinet Office
  • Personnel, Development and Administration Department
  • International and European Affairs Department
  • International Class Self-Representation
  • Department of Legal Self-Representation
  • Economic Directorate
  • Self-Control Unit

The criminal deputy attorney general under the direct supervision of:

  • Detection and Surveillance Department Vádelőkészítési
  • Special Affairs Department
  • Criminal Affairs Department
  • Prison Legal expenses of legal supervision and the Department of Self
  • Department of Children and Youth Self-

The civil law and administrative law, Deputy Prosecutor General is under the direct supervision:

  • Administrative Law Division
  • Department of Private Law
  • Computer and Information Division, Employment
  • The military is under the direct supervision of Attorney General:
  • Department of Military Affairs
  • Independent Human Resource and Information Department
  • Independent Financial and Accounting Department

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