Administrative Liability for Non-Compliance With a Prosecutor’s Lawful Demands: Law Enforcement Issues
Basing on the analysis of legal regulation, law enforcement practice and results of prosecutorial supervision, the author defined general grounds for bringing citizens and officials to administrative liability under Article 17.7 of the Russian Federation Code of Administrative Offences. The author also formulated the most prevailing reasons for judges’ refusal to bring persons to administrative liability (or subsequent reversal of dispositions on infliction of an administrative penalty by a higher court) pertaining to cases of this category. Some observations are made on the issue of a necessary updating of the legislation with the aim to realize measures of administrative liability for non-compliance with a prosecutor’s lawful demands, optimization of statistical calculation of administrative offences and addition to the departmental blank of statistical account (“П”) of some topical for modern times data. The article is written using “Konsultant-Plus” Reference and Search Service.