ADMINISTRATIVE JUSTICE AS A COMPONENT OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE-LEGAL MECHANISM FOR THE PROTECTION OF PUBLIC INTEREST

Abstract

In the article the author analyzes the category of administrative and legal mechanism for ensuring the realization of public interest. Under the administrative-legal mechanism for ensuring the realization of public interest, the author understands complex complexstructured system of regulation of relations between public administration bodies and subjects of power influence, the purpose of functioningof which is the satisfaction of objectively defined social development needs, its peculiar “over-goals”. It is substantiated that the effectiveness of the administrative-legal mechanism of ensuring public interest is achieved at the normative-legal, organizational, managerial and human-rights levels. It is substantiated that the administrative and procedural component ofthe administrative-legal mechanism for the protection of public interests is intended for the prevention and cessation of offenses in the realization of a particular public interest. It is emphasized that protection of public interests should be recognized as the central task of administrative justice, a characteristicof its legal nature, since it is with the help of administrative legal proceedings that judicial control and supervision of the activity ofstate authorities and local self- government bodies are carried out, protection of the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of individualsand restored public interests. It is substantiated that the separate activity form of protection of public interests by administrative justice bodies is the terminationof the issuance of normative legal acts issued by public administration bodies (or the invalidation of their separate provisions) thatviolate public interests.