Special Law on Administrative Litigation - Gyosei Jiken So Sho To Kureiho

...However, the subsequent purge of a Minister of State from public office during the Occupation triggered debate over the nature of litigation procedures for administrative cases. As a result, since administrative cases are legal disputes between administrative bodies such as the state and local governments and the public, it was thought that it was not necessarily appropriate to handle them in the same manner as general civil cases, which are disputes between private individuals. For administrative cases, the Special Act on Administrative Litigation was enacted in 1948, followed by the current Administrative Litigation Act in 1962.
[Current system]
Compared to the prewar administrative court system, the current administrative litigation system has seen significant improvements, such as the adoption of a three-tiered trial system similar to that for civil and criminal cases, and the adoption of a general generalization principle for the matters to be prosecuted. On the other hand, however, there are still some issues, such as the elimination of provisional measures under the Civil Preservation Act (Article 44 of the Administrative Litigation Act) and the principle of non-suspension of execution (Article 25, Paragraph 1.

*Some of the terminology used in the "Special Act on Administrative Litigation" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…しかし，その後占領下での国務大臣の公職追放事件を契機にして行政事件に対する訴訟手続のあり方が論議されるに至った。その結果，行政事件は，国や地方公共団体等の行政主体と国民との間の法的紛争であることから，これを私人相互間の争いである一般の民事事件と同様の手続で処理することが必ずしも適切ではないと考えられたために，行政事件については，1948年に行政事件訴訟特例法が制定され，ついで62年には現行法である行政事件訴訟法が制定された。
［現行制度］
　現行の行政訴訟制度は，戦前の行政裁判制度と比較すると，民事事件･刑事事件についてと同様の三審制が採られ，出訴事項についても一般概括主義が採用されるなど大幅な改善をみたが，他面，民事保全法による仮処分の排除(行政事件訴訟法44条)，執行不停止原則(25条1項。…

※「行政事件訴訟特例法」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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