The Determination of the Competent Court When Applying for Judicial Protection in an Administrative Offense Case

The problem of determining the competence of the court to consider a complaint (application) when applying for judicial protection of a person held liable in an administrative offense case, both by the person himself and by the judges, is considered. The study of existing rules of law, judicial acts of courts of first and higher instances, including the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, the analysis of scientific works devoted to the problem of determining the competent court both in cases of administrative offenses and in civil proceedings is a method, which allows one to study the problem of possible restriction or exclusion of access to judicial protection of persons held administratively liable, when appealing against the relevant regulatory act recognizing them as such. The Author compares the legislation on judicial proceeding in cases of administrative offenses of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus. Investigates the procedure for appealing against a decision in a case on an administrative offense and a decision within the framework of the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses and the Arbitration Procedure Code of the Russian Federation, their similarities and differences in the regulation of the appeal procedure. Court practice is brought to attention, which clearly demonstrates the essence of the problem of determining the competent court when applying for judicial protection in a case of an administrative offense. Judicial practice demonstrates a variety of approaches to the existing problem not only by the same court, but also by the same judge. The rights of persons brought to administrative responsibility, violated due to the existence of this problem, are identified. Through the study of scientific works of civil procedure scholars, the Author discusses the possibility of changing existing legislation in order to eliminate the possibility of depriving a person brought to administrative responsibility of the right to judicial protection. The Author proposes to exclude a number of norms from the current legislation, while the norms governing the issue of competence should be changed in terms of the procedure for handling an application received by the court, a complaint in a case of an administrative offense. The importance of resolving this problem for the Russian Federation as a legal state, which is the Russian Federation, is explained.