THE ROLE OF JUDICIAL PRACTICE IN THE FORMATION OF THE CONCEPT ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE

Abstract

The article emphasizes the need to adopt a legislative act on administrative procedure in Ukraine,which is conditioned by the European integration aspirations of the state, human-centeredorientation of public administration. In the absence of a single law that would contain therules of administrative procedure, fragmentary legal regulation of the procedure for adoptingadministrative acts, case law plays a significant role in shaping the concept of administrativeprocedure. The purpose of the article is to study the case law in order to outline the positions formulated by the court to understand the content of the administrative procedure, the rulesthat make it up. The study used the following scientific methods: empirical, which was able totrack among a large number of court decisions, which formed positions that embody the basicprinciples and principles of the concept of administrative procedure, and theoretical, includinganalysis and generalization, which allowed to draw conclusions about the role of judicial practicein developing the basic foundations of administrative procedure. Legal procedure, interpreted bythe court as part of the rule of law and the rule of law, is an important guarantee against abuse bypublic authorities in decision-making and actions that must ensure fair treatment of the individual.As a result of the research it was found out that the courts have developed and outlined in theirdecisions a number of positions on understanding certain aspects of administrative procedure: theessence of legal procedure, its significance in administrative and legal regulation; the essence ofthe principle of legitimate expectations; regarding the assessment of the ratio of the violation ofthe administrative procedure with the legality of the adopted act; understanding of a person’s rightto be heard (or the right to participate in administrative proceedings); ensuring the legitimateinterest (trust) of the person in maintaining the administrative act; on the admissibility of evidencein administrative proceedings; impossibility of termination (cancellation) of an administrative act,the effect of which is exhausted by execution, as well as regarding the principles of implementationof discretion by the public administration. The article concludes that the case law forms the basicideas and conclusions that can be embedded in the doctrine of administrative procedure. Thus, infact, the courts fill the gaps in the legal regulation of the procedure for adopting administrative acts.