In early 2017 the Hungarian Parliament passed the Code of
Administrative Litigation as a beginning of the reform of the
central administration. As the final step, the Hungarian Parliament
adopted a law on the Administrative Courts on 12 December 2018. The
goal of the new legislation was to 'restore the prestige of the
administrative courts' which was abolished in 1949. Since then
no separate administrative court system existed, it was integrated
into the civil courts.
The reason for the separation now is that administrative law has
a different internal logic compared to the civil law. Government
experts expect that the new system will be capable of contributing
to the development of administrative law and jurisprudence, and
outbalancing the dominant position of the public administration in
the litigation proceedings.
