Conducted in terms: 2024, 2025

Erasmus code: 10.0

ISCED code: 0421

ECTS credits: 8

Language: Polish

Organized by: Faculty of Law and Administration

Administrative and Judicial Administrative Procedure 2200-1P015

The classes are focused on presenting the basic theoretical and practical aspects of administrative proceedings. The aim of the classes is to familiarize students with the essence, nature, and course of administrative proceedings conducted on the basis of the provisions of the Act of 14 June 1960 - the Code of Administrative Procedure. The lecture material will focus on the most comprehensive and exhaustive analysis of individual institutions of administrative proceedings, with particular emphasis on showing the practical meaning of these institutions and their importance within administrative proceedings. Additionally, systemic and procedural issues related to administrative courts will be discussed.

1. The genesis and essence of administrative proceedings; basic concepts, scope of application

2. General principles of the Code of Administrative Procedure

3. Competence of authorities

4. Exclusion of employee and authority

5. Concept of party to administrative proceedings, party representative, party proxy

6. Entities with the rights of a party

7. Handling matters, deadlines in administrative proceedings

8. Deliveries and summonses

9. Initiation of administrative proceedings

10. Protocols and annotations

11.. Evidence in administrative proceedings; Explanatory proceedings

12. Suspension and termination of administrative proceedings

13. Administrative decision and resolution - the concept of an administrative decision will be defined, its mandatory elements in the light of art. 107 of the Code of Administrative Procedure and in the light of the case law of administrative courts; optional elements of an administrative decision and institutions from art. 109-113, as well as resolution, will also be discussed.

14. Administrative settlement - essence, nature, procedural significance. Conditions and procedure for conclusion, conditions and procedure for approval.

15. Appeal against a decision as an ordinary legal remedy - during this lecture, the appeal will also be discussed

16. Resumption of administrative proceedings - essence, conditions, procedure

17. Determination of invalidity of an administrative decision - essence, conditions, procedure

18. Other cases of annulment or amendment of final decisions

19. Fees and costs of proceedings

20. Simplified proceedings

21. Administrative courts - elements of the administrative court system, the right to court and the scope of cognition and basic information about the complaint against a decision, judgments and cassation appeal.

Type of course

obligatory courses

Mode

Classroom

Prerequisites (description)

The subject aims to equip students with knowledge of the principles, institutions and course of proceedings conducted by public administration bodies. Teaching focuses on the analysis of the Code of Administrative Procedure and administrative case law and practice. Students acquire the ability to independently identify legal problems, interpret procedural provisions and apply them in specific factual situations. The subject emphasizes the development of practical competences, such as drafting procedural documents and analyzing administrative decisions. The classes also aim to build legal awareness regarding the guarantee of protection of individual rights in relations with administrative authorities and to understand the importance of the rule of law, proportionality and citizens' trust in the state in administrative proceedings. The classes also focus on the issues of judicial control of administration and proceedings before administrative courts.

Course coordinators

Rafał Stankiewicz

Learning outcomes

K_W02

has basic knowledge of state and local government structures and basic elements of these structures

S1A_W02

K_W03

has basic knowledge of procedures and conditions of decision-making on the scale of the European Union, state and local government

S1A_W03

K_W05

knows the basic principles of searching for appropriate legal acts regulating social and economic relations and searching for statistical data

S1A_W06

K_W06

knows the basic legal regulations concerning the structures of the state and local government units

S1A_W07

K_W07

knows the evolution of legal and organizational regulation systems concerning the system, tasks and competences and financial matters of public administration

S1A_W08

K_W08

knows contemporary theoretical trends and concepts on the functioning of local government and civil society and the evolution of views on these issues

S1A_W09

K_U02

is able to use legal acts and strategic documents developed at various levels of public affairs management (identify and interpret them correctly)

S1A_U02

K_U03

has the skills to critically analyze the tasks of local government and forecast collective needs in the local and regional dimension

S1A_U03

S1A_U04

K_U04

correctly uses normative systems and selected norms and rules (legal, professional, moral) in order to solve a specific task in the field of public administration functioning

S1A_U05

K_U05

is able to indicate axiological and practical dilemmas in the work of a local government employee

S1A_U06

K_U06

has the skills to identify social problems in the regional and local dimension and select appropriate instruments for their solving

S1A_U07

K_U07

can prepare a typical written work in Polish and a foreign language, using basic concepts and terminology related to public administration

S1A_U08

S1A_U09

K_U08

can prepare an oral presentation in Polish and a foreign language regarding public administration issues

S1A_U10

Assessment criteria

The subject ends with an oral exam. Lecture credit is based on attendance and passing a test. Workshop credit is based on requirements set by the instructor.

The student should know most institutions and rules of procedure, apply them correctly, be able to solve cases and have the ability to draft procedural documents, as well as administrative acts.

Bibliography

Postępowanie administracyjne i sądowoadministracyjne z testami online, pod red. M. Wierzbowskiego i R. Stankiewicza, Warszawa 2024

Additional information

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