Mass action in the administrative process: the expediency of introduction in Ukraine

Abstract

The article deals with the prospect of the introduction of mass action in Ukraine. This new institution designed to provide more effective consideration of legal disputes, involving unlimited range of persons. The author analyses the foreign experience in this sphere the example of European countries, such as Italy, Lithuania, and Sweden. In the article special attention is given to judicial practice. Including the analysis of numerous regulations that made due consideration of similar cases. The author illustrates examples of the same type of cases, such as national pension disputes. These cases are separately considerate in administrative courts. The result is overload of administrative courts. Also the author adduces several moments, which must be considered in the introduction of mass action. The article focuses on terminology, because in theory there are various approaches to determine an institution. Proposals have been submitted for types of cases that can be considered as a mass action. Next moments are the opportunity of a person to refuse proceedings
within the mass action; involvement of representative of plaintiffs; and appeal the decision by mass action and submission mass appeal the court’s decision. The general idea is amendments to the Code of Administrative Justice concerning mass action. The author comes to the conclusion that introduction of the mass action help relieve the judicial system.