Tamás Sulyok, President of Hungary, attended the 17th Hungarian Lawyers' Assembly

The 17th Hungarian Lawyers' Assembly is a professional event of the Hungarian Lawyers' Association, where participants can listen to lectures by the most prominent representatives of the Hungarian legal scene.

Dr. Tamás Sulyok, President of Hungary, delivered his speech at the morning plenary session of the event.

The Head of State stressed that the dialogue between the two supreme judicial bodies - the Constitutional Court and the Curia - is a model of constitutional culture. The highest judicial bodies are attentive to each other's decisions, to the principles behind those decisions and, most importantly, to the fact that "they consider each other's jurisdiction binding on themselves".

The President stressed that "law can make human society better, freer and lead it towards justice". The legal community must do its utmost to make this happen, he said. He noted that fundamental freedom and legal certainty are closely tied, as a difficult-to-interpret law can raise questions of justice and with it freedom, while legal unity is closely tied with equality, as courts must essentially give the same judgment in similar cases, otherwise citizens are "not treated equally by the law".

Tamás Sulyok stressed that "law can make human society better, freer and can lead it towards justice". The legal community must do its utmost to make this happen, he said.

For the seventeenth time, the Hungarian Lawyers' Association is organising the Hungarian Lawyers' Assembly, one of the most prestigious events of the legal profession, between 10-12 April. The central theme of this year's meeting is "Legal certainty and legal unity in practice".