Deference from the European Court of Justice to the Hungarian Courts

Abstract

In the decisions of the European Court of Justice delivered in preliminary ruling procedures one can relatively often find deferences to the referring national courts rendering their task the further exploration and evaluation of the factual and/or legal background of the case. The present paper gives – by presenting some court cases – a first insight in a research in its preliminary phase the objective of which is to examine the afterlife of all the deferences to the Hungarian courts.