Impeding, intimidating or corruptly influencing an official of the Court

Hungary

Hungary - Criminal Code 1978 (2012) EN

SPECIAL PART
CHAPTER XXVII
CRIMES OF CORRUPTION

Active Corruption of Public Officials

Section 293
(1) Any person who attempts to bribe a public official by giving or promising unlawful advantage to such person or to another person for influencing such official’s actions in an official capacity is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment not exceeding three years.

SPECIAL PART
CHAPTER XXVII
CRIMES OF CORRUPTION

Active Corruption in Court or Regulatory Proceedings

Section 295
(1) Any person who promises or gives unlawful advantage to another person for himself or for a third party for him to refrain from acting in accordance with his duty or in the exercise of his rights in court, arbitration or other judicial proceedings is guilty of felony punishable by imprisonment not exceeding three years.
(2) The provisions of Subsection (1) shall apply when the acts defined therein are committed in the course of or in connection with, proceedings of an international criminal court installed under international convention promulgated by an act, or under a statutory resolution adopted by the United Nations Security Council, or by the Court of Justice of the European Union.
(3) The penalty may be reduced without limitation - or dismissed in cases deserving special consideration - against the perpetrator of a criminal offense defined in Subsections (1)-(2) if he confesses the act to the authorities first hand and unveils the circumstances of the criminal act.

Passive Corruption in Court or Regulatory Proceedings

Section 296
(1) Any person who requests or receives an unlawful advantage to refrain from acting in accordance with his duty or in the exercise of his rights in a court, arbitration or other judicial proceedings, for himself or for a third party, or accepts a promise of such an advantage, or is in league with the person requesting or accepting the advantage for a third party on his behest, is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment between one to five years.
(2) The provisions of Subsection (1) shall apply when the acts defined therein are committed in the course of or in connection with, proceedings of an international criminal court installed under international convention promulgated by an act, or under a statutory resolution adopted by the United Nations Security Council, or by the Court of Justice of the European Union.
(3) The penalty may be reduced without limitation - or dismissed in cases deserving special consideration - against the perpetrator of a criminal offense defined in Subsections (1)-(2) if he confesses the act to the authorities first hand, surrenders the obtained unlawful financial advantage in any form to the authorities, and unveils the circumstances of the criminal act.

SPECIAL PART
CHAPTER XXIX
OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC OFFICIALS

Assault on a Public Official

Section 310
(1) Any person who:
a) attempts to prevent a public official or a foreign public official in his lawful proceedings by
force or by threat of force;
b) takes certain action to compel a public official or a foreign public official to do, or to refrain
from doing, some act;
c) assaults a public official or a foreign public official during or because of his proceedings;
is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment between one to five years.
(2) The penalty shall be imprisonment between two to eight years if the assault against a public official is committed in a gang, by displaying a deadly weapon or by carrying a deadly weapon.
(3) The organizer or head of the gang referred to in Subsection (2) shall be punishable with imprisonment between five to ten years.
(4) Any person who participates in a gang arranged to commit assault against a public official is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment not exceeding two years, while the organizer and the head of the gang shall be punishable for a felony by imprisonment not exceeding three years.
(5) The person who assaults a public official or a foreign public official because of his proceedings shall be punished according to Subsections (1)-(4), even if the assaulted person is no longer a public official or foreign public official at the time the criminal act was committed.
(6) Any person who engages in preparations to commit assault against a public official is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment not exceeding one year.
(7) A person participating in the above-specified gang shall not be prosecuted under Subsection (4) if he leaves the gang voluntarily or by order of an authority.

Assault on a Person Entrusted with Public Functions

Section 311
Any person who commits the act defined in Section 310 against a person entrusted with public functions shall be punishable in accordance with the provisions of Section 310.

Assault on a Person Aiding a Public Official or a Person Entrusted with Public Functions

Section 312
Any person who commits the act defined in Section 310 against a person aiding or defending a public official, a foreign public official or a person entrusted with public functions shall be punishable in accordance with the provisions of Section 310.

Rome Statute

Article 70 Offences against the administration of justice

1. The Court shall have jurisdiction over the following offences against its administration of justice when committed intentionally:

(d) Impeding, intimidating or corruptly influencing an official of the Court for the purpose of forcing or persuading the official not to perform, or to perform improperly, his or her duties;