Specialties of judicial claiming of acts in cases of administrative offences rendered by police officers (by results of judicial practice)
Keywords:
administrative justice, acts in cases of administrative offences rendered by police officers, judicial appealing of acts of police in cases of administrative offences, judicial practice
Abstract
The purpose of the article is to study specialties of judicial claiming of acts in cases of administrative offences rendered by police officers. To conduct the research successfully, the author used the following methods of scientific knowledge: logical, historical, systemic-functional, and formally-dogmatic.
As a result of the study, the author analyzes the practice of administrative courts about adjudication of claims on acts of administrative offences made by police officers, including traffic violations.
Established that a lot of cases in which police officers appear as defendants, cases about appeal against the decision, actions or omissions of police officers due to bringing to administrative responsibility associated with some interconnected factors: a large number of appeals against decisions in cases of violations of traffic rules with a high degree of ignoring the norms of traffic rules by all road users in our country; imperfect (sometimes problematic) road infrastructure; high latency of these offences and due to this a high level of impunity of drivers; conflict drivers and not ability to admit their guilt; absence of affective mechanism of pretrial resolving such disputes; easy access to theirs judicial resolving (no court fee); also don’t throw away the procedural illiteracy of police officers. All this in array leads to the fact that this category of cases is an essential part of the activity of general courts as administrative courts.
Conclusions. Without going to the sociological analyze of this phenomenon, within the article author made the analyze of judicial practice of considering this category of case, found out the position of courts about resolving them that greatly affects on law enforcement practice and sometimes on the legislation and suggested some ways of their application by judges of administrative courts.
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3. Boyko, I.V. (2016). Zastosovnist statti 6 Konventsii pro zakhyst prav liudyny i osnovopolozhnykh svobod pry rozghliadi sprav pro administratyvni pravoporushennia [The applicability of Article 6 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms when considering cases of administrative offenses]. Visnyk Natsionalnoi akademii pravovykh nauk Ukrainy [Bulletin of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine], no. 2 (85), pp. 59–71 [in Ukrainian].
4. Budarny, O.V. (2017). Problemni pytannia oskarzhennia rishen, dii abo bezdiialnosti orhaniv i posadovykh osib Natsionalnoi politsii u zv’iazku z rozghliadom nymy sprav pro administratyvni pravoporushennia [Problems of appeal of decisions, actions or inactivity of bodies and officials of the National Police in connection with their consideration of cases concerning administrative violations]. Derzhavne budivnytstvo ta mistseve samovriaduvannia [Public construction and local government], issue 34, pp. 261–267 [in Ukrainian].
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10. European Court of Human Rights (2013). Rishennia Yevropeiskoho sudu z prav liudyny u spravi № 3276/10 “Shmushkovych proty Ukrainy” vid 14 lystopada 2013 r. [Judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in case № 3276/10 “Shmushkovich v. Ukraine” dated November 14, 2013]. Ofitsiinyi visnyk Ukrainy [Official Bulletin of Ukraine], no. 54, pp. 360 [in Ukrainian].
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14. Dnipropetrovsk district court of Dnipropetrovsk region (2016). Postanova Dnipropetrovskoho raionnoho sudu Dnipropetrovskoi oblasti u spravi № 175/2474/16-a vid 5 veresnia 2016 r. [Resolution of the Dnipropetrovsk District Court of Dnipropetrovsk region in case № 175/2474/16-a dated September 5, 2016]. Yedynyi derzhavnyi reiestr sudovykh rishen [Single State Register of Court Decisions]. Retrieved from: http://reyestr.court.gov.ua/Review/61208408 [in Ukrainian].
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17. Supreme Court of Ukraine (1995). Pro sudovu praktyku u spravakh pro vidshkoduvannia moralnoi (nemainovoi) shkody: Postanova Plenumu Verkhovnoho Sudu Ukrainy vid 31 bereznia 1995 r. № 4 [On judicial practice in cases of compensation for moral (non-pecuniary) harm: resolution of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of Ukraine dated March 31, 1995, № 4]. Retrieved from: http://pravo.ligazakon.ua/document/view/VS95-027?edition=2001_05_25 [in Ukrainian].
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Published
2019-06-10
How to Cite
Mironyuk, R. (2019). Specialties of judicial claiming of acts in cases of administrative offences rendered by police officers (by results of judicial practice). Administrative Law and Process, (1(24), 46-58. https://doi.org/10.17721/2227-796X.2019.1.05
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Administrative procedure (administrative legal proceedings
