The Discretion of the Administrative Court Judge Understood as the Weighing of Constitutional Values

Abstract

The article demonstrates the relevant role of the administrative court judge in the process of institutional constitutionalisation. The discretionary power of the administrative judges is provided by the activities undertaken within the framework of the adopted jurisprudential strategies, whose value is expressed in taking into account the need to build the foundations for the possibility of carrying out the widest possible dialogue both in the constitutional and European fields. The criticism of the judicature justifies the claim that to the extent relating to the interpretation of law, the constitutional principles and the principles of the European law bear significant importance, established already by a certain tradition, which causes the scope of the concept of law to be relatively wide and subject to the said balancing while adjudicating a specific case.

Keywords

• administrative court judge
• discretionary power
• weighing of constitutional values
• institutional constitutionalisation