CASES OF INSIGNIFICANT COMPLEXITY IN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDINGS: GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS AND TYPES

УДК 342.9

ORCID: 0000-0003-3801-9113

DOI 10.37566/2707-6849-2023-3(44)-14

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Olha SOLOVIOVA,

Phd, Assistant professor of the Department of Administrative Law

Yaroslav Mydriy National law university

CASES OF INSIGNIFICANT COMPLEXITY IN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDINGS: GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS AND TYPES

The scientific article is devoted to the issues of legal regulation of simplification of judicial procedures during the consideration of administrative cases. In 2017, the Code of Administrative Justice of Ukraine received a new edition, in which among the innovations was the consolidation of the possibility of consideration by the administrative court of cases in the order of simplified proceedings. In accordance with the provisions of the procedural law, simplified proceedings are intended to consider cases of minor complexity and other cases of administrative jurisdiction, for which the priority is to quickly resolve the case. The category «case of insignificant complexity» is new for the theory and practice of administrative proceedings, and therefore requires a scientific study of its essence and characteristics.

The article analyzed the provisions of the Code of Administrative Justice of Ukraine, which consolidate the definition of cases of insignificant complexity. Accordingly, the author concluded that the terms «insignificant case» and «case of insignificant complexity» are identical in administrative proceedings.

The author analyzed the current state of regulation and practice of consideration and resolution of administrative cases of insignificant complexity. The main attention is paid to the allocation of criteria on the basis of which the court refers the case to cases of insignificant complexity and classification of varieties of such cases in administrative proceedings. The author's criteria included such characteristics as the subject of the dispute, the subject of evidence and the actual circumstances of the cases, the number of participants in the case, the lack of public interest and the price of the dispute.

As a result, the author noted that the attribution of cases to cases of insignificant complexity is carried out in two ways: by the legislator, who determines the list of such cases and at the discretion of the court, taking into account the specific circumstances of the case. The court classifies cases as cases of insignificant complexity according to the following rules: 1) the court may recognize any case as minor, with the exception of those that should be considered exclusively according to the rules of general litigation; 2) to classify the case as insignificant complexity, the court takes into account the nature of the disputed legal relationship, the subject of evidence, the composition of the participants in the case and the lack of significant public interest.

Key words: administrative court, administrative proceedings, administrative case, case of insignificant complexity, forms of administrative proceedings, criteria for classifying cases as cases of minor complexity.

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