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Decision 59/1993 on reject a complaint without issuing a summons

Decision 59/1993 on reject a complaint without issuing a summons

29 November 1993

Decision number: Decision 59/1993. (XI. 29.)

Subject of the case:

Reject a complaint without issuing a summons

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Under Hungarian civil procedural law, courts could reject a complaint without issuing a summons if the claim was evidently unfounded or impossible. This general clause had been introduced to the Civil Procedural Code in 1952, and it was abolished in 1957. Legislature re-established the clause in 1972 in order to speed up procedures. According to the Constitutional Court, this provision violated the citizens’ rights to a fair trial by an independent court as provided by the Constitution. The Court emphasised that citizens had a right to have their claim judged by a court, and access to the courts could not be rejected by a simple reference to practical needs. It annulled the related provision of the Civil Procedural Code.

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