Public notaries are instrumental in settling legal disputes outside the law court, Justice Minister Judit Varga said in her closing address at the 33rd conference of central European public notaries in Budapest on Saturday. The minister noted that public notaries’ services are “independent, impartial, and professional”, aimed at settling disputes “in a civilised way, by way of the law, understanding, consideration, and documents” she said. Varga said Hungary’s public notaries are in the European forefront in terms of digitalisation, adding that some of their procedures had been made fully electronic a decade ago.