Review of secondary legislation before the administrative courts

The relationship between constitutional and administrative justice might be defined as very close. In many fields of their jurisdiction, including the judicial review of legal regulations, there is no strict line of demarcation. Contrary to the control of constitutionality of laws that unambiguously belongs to constitutional courts, the judicial review of legal regulations other than laws (secondary legislation) may be under certain circumstances performed also by administrative justice. Pursuant to the Article 87, paragraph 3, letter. a) of the Constitution of the Czech Republic, a law may stipulate that in respect of repeal of legal regulations, which are in violation of the law, rulings shall be issued by the Supreme Administrative Court in place of the Constitutional Court. Notwithstanding the foregoing, such constitutional delegation has not been applied till now and mentioned review of secondary legislation still belongs to constitutional justice. The major objective of this study is to analyse specifics, advantages and imperfections of secondary legislation review performed by administrative courts. In the first part, the thesis focuses on historical development of models of administrative justice (with special attention to judicial review of legal regulations) and also mentions related..