Public and/or private? remedies against the different decisions on social care services in Hungary

Hoffman, István (author)

Purpose: The paper examines the multi-layered remedy system in social care services in Hungary. It first analyses remedies related to the obligation of public service provision, especially remedies against normative tools for public service provision (such as decrees on fees and service standards) and the omission of duties by public bodies obliged to perform these services. A secondary focus is on remedies against the decisions and omissions by service provider institutions. Design and Approach: Hungarian legislation interprets social care services as legal relationships governed by private law with partial public law regulation. The public remedy against the decisions of the service providers is complaints, which are governed by sector-specific (public) regulations. The research examines the remedy system using legal study methods based on dogmatic analysis and involves an examination of judicial practice, namely Hungarian courts decisions on major public law remedies. Findings: Based on dogmatic and empirical analysis, the study reveals that Hungarian judicial practice has interpreted public law remedies, specifically complaints, in various ways. Following an amendment of legal regulation, the civil law-based interpretation now prevails. Although this practice has been consolidated, tensions can be observed, especially in the case of omissions. Practical implications: The paper suggests a legislative solution to mitigate these tensions, recommending that decisions establishing social care services be formalised as public decisions. Originality: The paper is based on a dogmatic analysis of the social care remedy system and, as a new element, contains an in-depth analysis of the Hungarian judicial practice on this issue.

• Language: English
• Keywords: administrative law, Hungary, litigation, private law, public law, remedies, social care services
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FU - Faculty of Administration
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.11.2024
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 207-223, 261
• Numbering: Vol. 22, no. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-165640
• UDC: 342.9:347.9(439)
• ISSN on article: 2591-2240
• DOI: 10.17573/cepar.2024.2.10
• COBISS.SI-ID: 218470915
• Publication date in RUL: 11.12.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Central European public administration review
• Shortened title: CEPAR
• Publisher: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Administration, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Administration, Založba Univerze v Ljubljani, = University of Ljubljana Press
• ISSN: 2591-2240
• COBISS.SI-ID: 293849600

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• Description: This Creative Commons license is very similar to the regular Attribution license, but requires the release of all derivative works under this same license.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Javno in/ali zasebno? pravna sredstva zoper različne odločitve s področja socialnega varstva na Madžarskem

Abstract

Namen: Prispevek obravnava večplastni sistem pravnih sredstev na področju socialnega varstva na Madžarskem. Najprej analizira javnopravna pravna sredstva, povezana z obveznostjo zagotavljanja javnih storitev, zlasti pravna sredstva zoper normativne instrumente za zagotavljanje javnih storitev (npr. odloki o pristojbinah in standardih storitev) in opustitev dolžnosti javnih organov, ki so dolžni zagotavljati te storitve, nato pa se posveti pravnim sredstvom zoper odločitve in opustitev dolžnosti izvajalcev teh storitev. Zasnova in pristop: Madžarska zakonodaja storitve socialnega varstva razlaga kot zasebnopravna razmerja z deloma javnopravno ureditvijo. Javnopravno pravno sredstvo zoper odločitve izvajalcev storitev so pritožbe, ki jih urejajo področni (javnopravni) predpisi. Raziskava proučuje sistem pravnih sredstev z uporabo metod pravne študije, ki temeljijo na dogmatični analizi, in vključuje analizo sodne prakse, in sicer odločitev madžarskih sodišč o pomembnejših javnopravnih pravnih sredstvih. Ugotovitve: Na podlagi dogmatične in empirične analize študija razkriva, da madžarska sodna praksa javnopravna pravna sredstva, zlasti pritožbe, razlaga različno. Po spremembi pravne ureditve se je razlaga premaknila v smeri pristopa, ki temelji na civilnem pravu, ostajajo pa določene napetosti, zlasti v primerih opustitve. Praktične posledice: Članek predlaga zakonodajno rešitev za ublažitev teh napetosti in priporoča, da se odločitve glede storitev socialnega varstva formalizirajo kot javnopravne. Izvirnost: Prispevek temelji na dogmatični analizi sistema pravnih sredstev na področju socialnega varstva in kot novost ponuja poglobljeno analizo madžarske sodne prakse na tem področju.

• Keywords: upravno pravo, Madžarska, sodni postopek, zasebno pravo, javno pravo, pravna sredstva, storitve socialnega varstva