The new Civil Procedure Code (CPC) entered into force on 1st
January 2018, has reformed significantly the Hungarian Civil
litigation in order to speed up litigations. One of its major
novelty is the division of the first instance court procedure into
2 parts, the preparatory phase and the trial phase. We summarise
the most important features of these two phases of first instance
court procedure below.
The 2 parts of the first instance court procedure
Hungarian courts faced with high case load in last years, which
lengthened the average civil procedure. The most important
objective of the CPC is to accelerate the civil litigation, and to
this end the legislator has divided the first instance procedure
into 2 parts,
