Legal and Practical Conditionality of the Prosecutor’s Participation in the Consideration of Administrative Off enses Cases in Commercial Courts

Abstract

The paper examines the prosecutor’s role in the administrative jurisdictional proceedings in a commercial court. The author provides numerous examples from prosecutorial and judicial practice, reflecting the activities of prosecutors to strengthen the rule of law through participation in commercial litigation. The paper also indicates the requirements imposed by legislation, organizational and administrative documents of the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation and the prosecutor’s offices of the constituent entities for the work of prosecutors in this direction. Based on statistical data on the number of cases initiated by prosecutors and the corresponding cases considered by the courts, the role of the prosecutor in the consideration of cases of the analyzed category by the courts is determined. According to the results of the study, the author points out the shortcomings of certain provisions of the law, determines the need to improve the theoretical foundations of the participation of the prosecutor in the consideration of cases of administrative offenses in commercial courts, emphasizes that changing the procedure for legal regulation of the participation of the prosecutor in commercial litigation is necessary in connections with changing social relations, and the preservation of the existing order gives rise to stagnation in the development of procedural legislation.