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In the previous blog post I left off at the point where I had started downloading a great many Hungarian decisions that may be of interest to practising lawyers. Since then I have collected 13,000 decisions of the Constitutional Court, 7,890 decisions of the competition authority and related court decisions, 1,918 position statements of the Hungarian National Bank (MNB), 519 documents of the data protection authority (NAIH), 4,654 decisions of the National Trade and Consumer Protection Authority, 24,600 Media Council decisions out of the decisions of the National Media and Infocommunications Authority (NMHH), 885 decisions of the copyright and industrial property expert boards, 1,540 disciplinary decisions of the bar associations, several thousand published notices on agricultural land transactions (land-use and sale contracts), and more than 225,000 decisions from the Collection of Court Decisions (BHGY).

It is very telling how the achievements of the EU-born open data initiative (or whatever it happens to be called) look to practising lawyers who want to exercise the rights the law gives them. What an interested attorney, in-house counsel, etc. would want in such a case is access to as many public legal sources and decisions as possible, in a uniform and as searchable a form as possible.