Scientific and Theoretical Characteristics of the Stage of a Disciplinary Case Consideration and Decision-Making

The paper is devoted to the characteristics of legal relations arising at the stage of consideration of a disciplinary case and decision-making within the framework of disciplinary proceedings brought against civil servants. The study explains the content of this stage, mental and practical operations, procedural actions undertaken to establish objective truth in an individual and specific case, the final legal assessment of the established facts and circumstances by the person in charge.

The paper substantiates that a disciplinary case consideration and decision making constitutes a stage of proceedings in a disciplinary case or legal proceedings based on materials about a gross disciplinary offense that includes considering the case on the merits in order to establish factual and legal basis of the case and to make a lawful, fair and reasonable decision. The stage of consideration of the disciplinary case and decision-making involves logical and procedural activity of managers (chiefs), commanders, judges of the garrison military court aimed to establish the correspondence between the circumstances of the disciplinary case and the facts that actually took place (i.e. objective truth), to provide legal qualification of the offense by correlating the actual circumstances and elements of an offence and formulation of conclusions and adoption of decisions based on the circumstances of the case.

The paper states lack of procedural norms ensuring consideration of disciplinary cases and adoption of decisions concerning application of disciplinary penalties in the public service system (with the exception of the military service system), which determines the exact and unswerving adherence by law enforcement officers to the general principles of legal and disciplinary responsibility and the established rules applied to impose disciplinary penalties. A disciplinary case consideration by an authorized person in chief is practically implemented in the study of the proceedings files, performing an internal audit, examining the protocol on gross disciplinary misconduct of a military man. This circumstance presupposes further processalization of the legal enforcement activity under consideration and its regulation by the norms of administrative procedural legislation.

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