nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20201013-233456-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 201013s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20201013-233456-0 doi eng 342 23 Kazai, Viktor Z. Author aut The Last Days of the Independent Supreme Court of Hungary? Kazai, Viktor Z. Verfassungsblog 2020-10-13 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Ordinary courts seem to have remained the last bulwark of individual freedom and the rule of law since the Fidesz government has successfully undermined other nominally democratic institutions, including the Constitutional Court. While the recently published EU Rule of law report discusses the problems of judicial independence in great detail, so far, ordinary courts have resisted political pressure relatively well, largely because of the ruling party’s failure to capture the professional leadership of the judiciary. Various legislative changes by the government in recent years coupled with the upcoming election of the Supreme Court’s new Chief Justice, however, could be fatal to the independence of Hungary’s entire justice system. funded by the government CC BY-SA 4.0 Constitutional Court Fidesz Hungarian Supreme Court judicial independence Kovács, Ágnes Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-last-days-of-the-independent-supreme-court-of-hungary/ raw object