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How Much Compensation Can I Expect if the State Takes My Property?

Péter Barta, Dániel Fodor | 25 September 2025
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According to investment plans announced this summer, the government is preparing to implement large-scale road and railway construction projects over the next ten years. These public infrastructure developments will significantly impact the country's transportation network, ultimately affecting the national economy. However, the developments have a rarely discussed but also important consequence: the expected increase in expropriation cases.

What Can We Do If a Business Partner Fails to Pay?

Péter Barta | 23 July 2025
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Péter Barta

In the business world, it is not uncommon for a business partner to fail to pay their overdue debt or to repay a loan. So what legal options are available in such cases? Below, we summarize the most important legal remedies.

 

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Penalty-Imposing Courts, “Fast-Track” Lawsuits, and Streamed Hearings – A Gen Z Legal Experience in the Courtroom

Péter Szilas | 28 May 2025
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Péter Szilas

A new legislative proposal aims to introduce several exciting innovations in civil litigation. The objectives include speeding up court proceedings, increasing public oversight over litigation, modernizing legal education and academic research, enhancing the Supreme Court’s (Kúria) function of ensuring legal uniformity, and reducing the administrative burden on courts related to their obligation to provide reasoning. We’ve summarized the most intriguing innovations from the proposal below.

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The Supreme Court Has Ruled: Losers Must Pay!

Zoltán Dobos | 28 May 2024
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Zoltán Dobos

In a previous article, we analyzed the phenomenon where courts typically reduce the attorney fees awarded to the winning party. This essentially forces the winner to incur unjustified losses, indirectly causing market distortion. Now, the Supreme Court has responded to this phenomenon with a precedent-setting, binding decision. Let's first look at the key developments and then how this affects litigation strategy!

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Can I secretly record a business meeting?

Péter Barta | 19 April 2024
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Péter Barta

As technology advances, it becomes easier and easier to record any conversation. Today, anyone with a smartphone can easily record business meetings - even in secret. There are many reasons for making a secret recording: for some it may be a security measure to avoid disputes, for others it may be an ulterior motive to use it later. But is it legally permissible to make an audio recording in secret? And what are the consequences of using a secretly made audio recording in a civil or criminal case?

Who pays the case-winning lawyer?

Zoltán Dobos | 2 December 2022
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Zoltán Dobos

If you’ve never sued or been sued, you may be forgiven for thinking that the costs of the lawsuit are paid by the losing party. However, after a case is closed, the winner of the suit may easily find that its win was a Pyrrhic victory, and that it is left with substantial costs to shoulder, without compensation. What are the impacts of this on business and how should parties best manage the related risks?

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PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS AND POLYGRAPHS IN BUSINESS

Tamás Fehér | 20 May 2022
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Tamás Fehér

Some of the more exotic means of evidence that we typically think can only exist in movies or in serious criminal cases can also be surprisingly useful in business. In everyday life, too, you can prevent serious inconvenience by hiring a private investigator in time, or even by a well-directed lie detector test. Zsolt Bodnár and Dr. Béla Balla of Hori-Zone Security helped us to get to the bottom of the subject.

A room with a view – or without?

Gábor Kerekes J. | 7 October 2021
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Gábor Kerekes J.

There are many factors to be considered when determining the value of a property. Among many other things, features such as the view from the property or the natural light that enters the interior cannot be left out of account. It’s clear, then, that the sunset at Lake Balaton from our window adds a lot to the property, but it’s often unclear what we need to focus on before and during the building stage if we’re to avoid attracting the ire of our neighbours later on.

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