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IS IT PERMISSIBLE FOR THE COURTS TO INTRUDE INTO THE COMPETENCE OF OTHER AUTHORITIES?

JUDICIAL AUTHORITY AND PRACTICE


D.A. TUMANOV

D.A. TUMANOV,
Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor,
Department of Civil and Administrative Proceedings, Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL),
Associate Professor, Department of Procedural Law, All-Russian Academy of Foreign Trade
of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation

The article deals with the question of the admissibility of courts’ intrusion into the sphere of
competence of other authorities. In the USSR, and later in the Russian Federation, an approach
was developed according to which judicial control cannot concern those issues which are
attributed to the exclusive competence of the legislative and executive authorities and whose
solution is connected with their discretion. At present, to justify this impossibility they refer
to the principle of separation of powers. But after all, the main purpose of such a principle
is to prevent the absolutization of power. While the existence of areas inaccessible to judicial
control, just becomes a source of arbitrariness of the legislative and executive powers. The article
demonstrates that judicial control in Russia should also cover those acts, actions (inaction) of
the authorities, the adoption or commission of which is based on their discretion, and it is this
approach that truly corresponds to the principle of separation of powers. Examples are given
of situations where significant issues for society that are within the discretion of the legislative
and executive powers are not resolved, which significantly violates the public interest. The
society would benefit from court intervention to solve such issues. The author considers possible
variants of court intervention in the solution of socially significant issues.

Keywords: judicial control; judiciary; principle of separation of powers.

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Information about the author

D.A. Tumanov (Moscow, Russia) – Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor,
Department of Civil and Administrative Proceedings, Kutafin Moscow State
Law University (MSAL), Associate Professor, Department of Procedural Law, All-Russian
Academy of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian
Federation (9 Sadovaia-Kudrunskaia St., Moscow, 125993, Russia; e-mail: dtum@
mail.ru).

Recommended citation

Tumanov D.A. Dopustimo li vtorzhenie sudov v sferu kompetentsii inykh organov vlasti?
[Is It Permissible for the Courts to Intrude into the Competence of Other Authorities?].
Vestnik grazhdanskogo protsessa – Herald of Civil Procedure, 2022, vol. 12, no. 1,
pp. 248–263. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24031/2226-0781-2022-12-1-248-263

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