In Uzbekistan, opportunities for citizens to appeal to court against state bodies will be expanded

In Uzbekistan, citizens' opportunities to appeal to court against state bodies will be expanded

Shavkat Mirziyoyev became acquainted with a presentation dedicated to the prospects of bringing administrative justice to a new level.

Over the past period, administrative courts reviewed nearly 150,000 cases, and in more than 70,000 instances, illegal decisions of state bodies were annulled.

Additionally, about 27,000 private rulings were issued to higher or other authorized bodies regarding the unlawful actions of officials.

These results show that the activities of administrative courts are shaped on the basis of the principle "The state bodies must serve the people, not the people the state bodies." This system is of great importance in strengthening legality in the activities of state bodies and effectively restoring the violated rights of citizens and entrepreneurs.

At the presentation, proposals to introduce about 15 new legal institutions based on advanced foreign experience and modern requirements at the next stage of developing the sector were reviewed.

According to the current procedure, citizens and entrepreneurs can appeal to administrative courts in only one form to restore their violated rights.

As a result of the proposed reforms, conditions will be created for citizens to proactively ensure the protection of their rights before they are violated. In this regard, it is planned to introduce four types of lawsuit forms for appealing to court.

At the same time, the current six-month period established for appealing to court will be revised. It was proposed to create an opportunity for citizens to appeal to court without a time limit regarding the recognition of a violation committed by a state body.

Currently, in the event that a citizen's right is violated by a normative-legal act of local government bodies, there is no possibility to appeal against such an act to an administrative court.

Now, it is proposed to grant citizens the right to appeal directly to court against normative-legal acts of local government bodies.

Based on this, it is planned to expand the powers of administrative courts, tasking them with verifying whether state bodies used discretionary powers legally and reasonably when applying measures of influence on citizens and entrepreneurs.

Effective measures aimed at ensuring the unconditional execution of court decisions are also envisaged. According to them, if a court decision is repeatedly not executed even after a fine is applied to an official of a state body for failing to execute the court decision, the court will notify the prosecutor to take legal action.

The President supported the presented initiatives, emphasizing that the proposed legal institutions should serve to effectively restore human rights through the court in cases of their gross violation, ensure the full functioning of the principle of proportionality established in the Constitution in practice, increase the responsibility of state bodies, and ensure the inevitable execution of court decisions.