The purpose of the article. The article examines the judicial protection of the rights of local self-government, in particular the protection of the rights of united territorial communities as subjects of power and representative bodies of a certain administrative-territorial unit or its separate part through an appeal to the court. The research is aimed at analyzing the theoretical, normative and practical aspects of the implementation of the community's right to judicial protection, guarantees to ensure the implementation of the community's powers to protect the rights and legitimate interests through recourse to the courts. Examples of appeals of territorial communities to the court to resolve disputes in civil, commercial, administrative proceedings are given. Scientific novelty. A scientific novelty is the vision of judicial protection of the rights of local governments as an effective mechanism for protecting the rights and interests of citizens through local representative authorities – the community. In order to reveal the substantive component of the application of procedural rules in various areas of law to protect the rights and legitimate interests of local communities, practical examples of resolving disputes between the community and an individual, between the community and the entity, between two adjacent communities. Conclusions. Summarizing the results of the study, the conclusions noted the availability of additional powers and more powerful resources, which were acquired by the united territorial communities in the process of reforming the system of local self-government. In particular, there is an active use by local governments of mechanisms of judicial protection of communities in constitutional, civil, economic, administrative legal relations; There is a violation of the rights of local governments and exceeding the powers of their own powers, as for example, through the adoption of regulations and procedural regulations, the community council and its leader try to «regulate» their own decisions, thus creating obstacles to appeal the opposing party; it means, proclaimed by a cascade instantiation, the need for the state of the nature of legal principles in the correctness of the provision of procedural legislation, as a result of the revision of spiritual nutrition between the body of the muscular self-production. The importance of the experience of applying legislative innovations for the implementation of local development was also noted, as urban, settlement and rural united territorial communities are now forced to fight more actively for their own resources using judicial protection mechanisms, often neglecting the interests of ordinary community members. have become global competitors of local significance along with other economic entities.