Investigating Judge in the Hungarian Criminal Procedure.

The paper briefly talks about the investigating judge as a new important subject of the Hungarian criminal procedure. Until introducing the institute of the investigative judge the Hungarian criminal procedure did not have a court organ in investigation, which was entirely in the competence of the public prosecutor. The paper is divided into four major parts. In the first part the author points onto the dilemmas that have been raised in the preparatory work of the new Criminal Procedure Code regarding the need and the model of the investigating judge. In competition with the model of a classical investigating judge the investigating judge as a human rights judge got more support. In the second part the author elaborates on the competences of the investigating judge. In the third part the ways of bringing decisions by the investigating judge are considered. The forth and final part is devoted to short concluding remarks in which the author highlights that the investigative judge is an important organ in providing for the legality of prosecution and maintaining human rights in the pre-criminal procedure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]