SOME PROCEDURAL FEATURES OF COURT CONSIDERATION OF LAND AND ENVIRONMENTAL DISPUTES
Background: the article analyzes the mechanism of court consideration of land and environmental disputes. Attention is paid to the issues of jurisdiction (competence) of the courts, since its incorrect definition is the basis for refusal to accept the statement of claim, or termination of proceedings. Questions of subject structure and problems of realization of the adversarial principle at the adjudication of cases arising from the land relations are investigated. Objective: identification of the specifics of legal proceedings in cases arising from land and environmental relations. Methodology: comprehensive and complex theo retical and practical research of this topic was carried out using general scientific methods: logical (induction, deduction, analysis and synthesis), systemic and functional) and as well as private law (historical and legal, formal legal, comparative legal) ones. Results: it is stated that, in particular, with the court jurisdiction of cases, the subject composition of cases, the procedural peculiarities of resolution of these disputes by the courts are related. Conclusions: the characteristic features of the investigated category of cases are the cor rectness of determining the competence and jurisdiction of courts, the establishment of appropriate participants (subjects) of controversial legal relations, as well as its own special terminology and conceptual and categorical apparatus.