Budapest - The "Hungarian Guard," a nationalist paramilitary organization that continues to defy a recent court order to disband is taking its case to the country's highest court, the group's lawyer said on Friday.

Lawyer Tamas Gaudi-Nagy has lodged a request with the Hungarian Supreme Court for the case to be reviewed, the local news agency MTI reported.

On July 2 a Budapest appeals court upheld a first instance court ruling that the Guard was guilty of violating the civil rights of ethnic Roma villagers during a rally as part of its self-styled campaign against "Gypsy crime."

Nevertheless, the group held a mass rally in the centre of the Hungarian capital a little over a week later, at which hundreds of members and a handful of sympathetic public figures donned the black and white uniform.

The Guard is the brainchild of the nationalist political party Jobbik, which won three of Hungary's 22 seats in the European Parliament after campaigning on an anti-Roma, Eurosceptic ticket.

One of the Jobbik representatives has worn his Hungarian Guard uniform to work in the European Parliament in Brussels on numerous occasions. (dpa)