Solov'ev A.A. Administrative hearing of claims for compensation of harm: foreign experience

Abstract: The paper contains the analysis of the foreign experience of normative consolidation of the possibility to consider the cases of recourse against decisions, actions, or inactions of administrative bodies, related to the claims for indemnification, within administrative proceedings. The author studies the cases of Argentina, Armenia, Bulgaria, Georgia, India, Spain, Italy, China, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Ukraine, France, Switzerland, and Estonia, and comes to the conclusion the most of them use the provision allowing considering the claims for indemnification for damage caused by decisions, actions, or inactions of administrative bodies or authorities together with the cases about declaring them illegal, i.e. within the same administrative process. The methodology is based on the methods of analysis and synthesis, the system and comparative-legal methods. The author analyzes the statutory instruments of foreign states and comes to the conclusion about the necessity to amend the Administrative Court Procedure Code of the Russian Federation with the provisions stipulating the possibility to consider the claims for indemnification of damage caused by the disputed decisions, actions, or inactions in the sphere of administrative or other public legal relations within administrative proceedings. 

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