Cases on Fundamental Rights of the Curia of Hungary between 1 October and 1 December 2017

Abstract

Between 1 October and 1 December 2017, the adjudicating and non-litigious panels of the Curia of Hungary examined the implementation of the following issues on fundamental rights: equality before the law and prohibition of discrimination [Article XV, paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Fundamental Law of Hungary] in a case concerning the freedom to provide services within the European Union and the activity of operating games of chance and gambling machines; children’s right to the protection and care necessary for their proper physical, intellectual and moral development [Article XVI, paragraph (1) of the Fundamental Law of Hungary] in a legal dispute regarding the compulsory preventive vaccination of a child and in a case touching upon a parent’s request for the reduction of child maintenance payments; and the right to seek remedy [Article XXVIII, paragraph (7) of the Fundamental Law of Hungary] in a dispute in which the Curia of Hungary was obliged to reopen its proceedings as a result of a successful constitutional complaint.