Glossary of legal terms

Decision concerning matters pending before different authorities, which have to be jointly examined and decided concurrently by a shared measure.

Review of administrative action by Courts. The term can also be understood as referring to review of the constitutionality of legislation in those legal systems providing for this remedy.

Set of previous judicial decisions on a particular issue or topic of the Council of State (or SAC) which often serves to the Administrative Courts as an example when a new case is examined, but it is not obligatory for them (or for the Council of State, or SAC, itself) to follow. In common law countries, this often refers to earlier court judgments which should influence the result or outcome of the case (“doctrine of precedent”).