Mock Trial at the
Hungarian Academy
of Justice
Ágnes Józsa
26-27 June 2014
Brussels
The training program of the Academy
 The
Hungarian Academy of Justice (HAJ) is a
department of the National Office for the
Judiciary (NOJ) and one of its departments is
the Department for Judicial Training
 The
Department for Judicial Training of the
HAJ prepares the training program, which is
approved by the president of the NOJ
 Compulsory
 Central
– elective training courses
– regional – local trainings
Venue of central trainings: HAJ
Training for the preparation for the judicial
profession
 Compulsory,
central training for court
secretaries
4
x 5-day periods:
- 1st week: organisational management,
ethics, retorics, psychology;
- 2nd week: procedural law and decisionediting;
- 3rd week: criminal mock trial;
- 4th week: civil mock trial
Judicial career in Hungary
Trainee
(referent)
Assistant
judge
(court
secretary)
Judge
Participiants

Court secretaries: lawyers with bar-exam already
dealing with minor legal disputes, misdemeanours and
taking evidence on hearings – continuous training on
these special legal fields

Judges: prepare the cases, conduct and evaluate mock
trials

Psychologists: give psychological evaluation on the
mock trial

Technicians: video recording of the mock trial, which is
handed over to the court secretaries
The mock trial in progress
The mock trial in progress
The mock trial in progress
Legal evaluation

Aspects of the legal evaluation form:
1) Evaluation of preparation:
- knowledge of the case documentation
published on the website of the HAJ in advance,
- knowledge of the applied material and
procedural law
2) Evaluation of the trial:
- application of the procedural regulations,
- record keeping,
- trial style

Evaluation is based on a 1-4 scale and may be
explained by the mock trial conducting judge
Psychological evaluation

Aspects of the psychological evaluation form :
1) Verbal communication,
2) Non-verbal communication (body language),
3) Handling emotional interactions in the
courtroom,
4) Conflict handling methods.
 The
psychologists take the evaluation criteria
into consideration and evaluate the performance
on a 1-4 scale: poor / satisfactory / good /
excellent
Thank you for
your attention
Ágnes Józsa
National Office for the Judiciary –
Department for Judicial Training
of the Hungarian Academy of
Justice

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