Vice-President of the Supreme Court

KAPOSVÁRI Bertalan was born in 1939 in Budapest. Having received his degree in law, he worked as a counsel between 1963 and 1966, whereupon he became a trainee at the Military Court of Budapest as a regular member of the army. Having passed the professional legal exam he was appointed judge and worked at various military courts in the country and at the military court of the capital. From 1974 until 1980 he worked at the Ministry of Justice. Then he joined the Supreme Court and adjudicated in its Military Department, where after some years he was appointed head of chamber. Due to the transformation of the judicial system his military service relation was dissolved in 1991 and he became a chamber leader in the Criminal College of the Supreme Court. From 1998 until 2004 he was head of the disciplinary chamber of the Supreme Court. He was appointed Vice-President of the Supreme Court on 12 January 2005.

In 1997 the President of the Republic of Hungary promoted him brigadier general. Besides his judicial activity he has published several studies on criminal substantive and procedural law. Between 1972 and 1974 he taught at the Police Academy. He was editor of the Compilation of Military Court Decisions and he is a member of the professional exam committee. Act III of 2003 on the disclosure of the secret service activities of the previous regime and on the establishment of the Archives of State Security Services provided for the drawing up of a list containing especially important documents of national security. He has been carrying out this task since July 2003 on behalf of the Supreme Court. In addition he is a man of letters, who has published several short stories and novels and who is a member of the Hungarian Writers' Association.