Administration of justice: comparative aspect of different national legal systems

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ENEvery national legal system has its own approach towards the mechanism of the administration of justice. Different mechanisms of administration of justice, i.e. institutional schemes of administration of justice, are implemented in different countries. In Lithuania, the sole administrator of justice shall be the judiciary. However, there is a number of institutions, which basically perform analogous actions – decide whether a certain legal or natural person has breached the law in the respective sphere, impose fines, etc. Therefore, Lithuanian legal system to some extent faces uncertainties related to the concept and mechanism of administration of justice, more precisely – to the monopolisation and trust the administration of justice solely for the courts. Do other members of the European Union face similar problems? Does Court of Justice of the European Union have an approach to this problem? May all national legal systems in the European Union be assimilated with respect to this issue – is convergence necessary in this respect at all? This paper is dedicated to pose these questions and encourage the discussion concerning these issues. Keywords: administration of justice, justice, courts, courts’ system. [From the publication]