Representatives of organizations and individual entrepreneurs are mainly summoned to the arbitration court on issues directly related to their business activities. In addition, disputes between companies and authorities and some other issues are resolved in the system of these courts.
The system of arbitration courts successfully operates in parallel with the courts of general jurisdiction, while having a clearly defined competence. The range of issues on which they are summoned to the arbitration court is indicated in Chapter 4 of the Arbitration Procedure Code of the Russian Federation. The general rule stipulates that arbitration courts resolve disputes related to the participation of organizations that have the status of a separate legal entity, individual entrepreneurs. In this case, the subject of the dispute must flow directly from the commercial activities of these persons. In some cases, when considering the designated disputes, representatives of state bodies, ordinary citizens, may be summoned to the court, which is specially stipulated in the named chapter.
Relations with government agencies
In addition to economic disputes between companies, entrepreneurs, cases arising from public legal relations are considered in the system of arbitration courts. This category includes disputes related to the invalidation of normative acts, law enforcement acts, decisions, actions of officials. In addition, these courts resolve certain administrative cases, they appeal against decisions of other bodies that bring companies and entrepreneurs to administrative responsibility. Disputes between entrepreneurs and tax authorities are also referred by law to the competence of arbitration courts.
Other Categories of Issues Tackled by the Arbitration Court
In addition to economic and public disputes in the system of arbitration courts, cases are considered, the purpose of which is to recognize certain facts in the field of entrepreneurial activity, decisions made in the system of arbitration courts are challenged. Also, it is to the competence of these judicial bodies that specialized issues related to the insolvency of business entities, the protection of intellectual rights, and the protection of the business reputation of entrepreneurs are attributed. To resolve various categories of disputes in any arbitration court, panels are created, which include judges specializing in specific issues. This division allows to ensure high quality, speed of legal proceedings, the minimum number of subsequently canceled decisions. They can be summoned to the arbitration court as a plaintiff, a defendant, or a third party.
