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PRESIDENTOF THE CURIA OF HIINGARY 21 August2013 Budapest, Dear Colleague, May I askyour help in the following issue. In Hungary the primary responsibility of the SupremeCourt - from I January 2012 the Curia - is to ensure the uniform application of law. In order to meet this responsibilityand basedon provisions of law I have establishedworking groupsthat analysejudicial practicein certain issues.The issueto be dealt with by one of the working groups is the drafting of court decisions.This working group is made up ofjustices of the Curia, the former President of the Supreme Court, several university professors (acknowledged representativesof sciencessuch as contemporarylinguistics,rhetoric and legal IT), the editor-in-chiefof a law journal and the chief dramaturg of a leading theatre. Our goal is to give short, clear and easily understandable decisionsaccordingto the guidelinesof the Magna Charta of Judgesadoptedby the CCJE and the Vilnius Declaration of the ENCJ. Basedon the work done until now the outlines of a recommendationseemto take shape,accordingto which in the decisionsmade in the review procedureby the Curia the earlier casehistory shall be omitted and the facts of the caseshall be included in the decisiononly if the Curia has to take a standin a substantiveissue. Otherwisethe decision shall be limited to information on the legal issueand the answersof the Curia to it. Another aspectto be addressedin terms of drafting court decisionsis that decisionsshall be capableof being processedelectronically,which will renderthem accessiblenot only to jurists but to the public as well. In casethereare similar initiations in your country,I would be obliged if you could sharethe resultswith me. If no examinationhas been conductedon the drafting of court decisions,I would still be obligedif you could provide information on the following issues: o what are the principles of drafting decisions of review procedures before the supremecourt in your country? o what are the parls of a review decision? . are there any requirementsconcerning form and content? It would alsobe of somehelp, if you could sendone or two decisionsas an example. Thank you very much for your kind co-operationand response. ;ilffi1 Curiaof Hungary,H-1055Budapest, Mark6utca16. T el.: +36 | I 268-4749,fax +36 1I 268-4748,e-mail: international@kuria. birosag.hu