History of Releasing <em>Res Judicata</em> in Hungarian Civil Procedure in the Recent Decades – Extraordinary Remedies

The paper presents how the system of extraordinary legal remedies has developed in Hungarian civil procedural law and which of these was more exposed to political changes, especially the change of regime in 1989-1990. It presents what happened to the legal institution when the new Hungarian Civil Procedure Code came into force in 2018 and three years later, when a comprehensive reform of the Code of Procedure took place, and with it the introduction of the limited precedent system. While the development of retrial was more uniform, changing less in each historical era, the development of the review mechanism was interrupted for a long time during the socialist era. After 1990, an unconstitutional omission situation arose which the legislator wanted to address but with limited success. The 2018 Code of Civil Procedure created a sophisticated, Western European-inspired system, though this version was in force for only three years.