SECURING AN ADMINISTRATIVE CLAIM: LIMITS OF THE COURT’S POWERS

Abstract

The article analyzes the architectonics of legislative changes, the subject of legal regulation of which is the institution of ensuring administrative claims by courts in Ukraine. Securing an administrative lawsuit means a legally defined procedural mechanism, which consists in the use of a court in which an administrative case is pending, until its resolution of statutory measures to enable the actual implementation of future court decisions, if it is in favor of the plaintiff. It has been established that the institution of securing an administrative claim is permanently and progressively narrowing significantly, as a number of public authorities have been removed from the subjective composition of its procedural distribution. These are: the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the President of Ukraine, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the High Council of Justice, the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine and other state bodies. The practice of nation-building shows that the tendency to narrow the institution of securing an administrative claim is actively supported by national parliamentarians. The change in the political situation in Ukraine after the removal of the head of state in February 2014 from his post in no way had a positive effect on preventing further «depletion» of the institution of administrative lawsuits, which led to «procedural weakening» of administrative courts, rather than strengthening them. In view of such legislative changes, the powers of administrative courts in Ukraine in terms of their application of this important procedural institution, contrary to international requirements, are gradually decreasing. This means a proportional narrowing of the procedural rights and opportunities of the plaintiff and, as a consequence, the leveling of guarantees of ensuring the constitutional rights of man and citizen in Ukraine. Key words: ensuring an administrative claim, the institution of procedural law, constitutional rights and guarantees of man and citizen