The Challenge of Legal Status of Administrative Justice Court in Resolving of Disputes in the Field of Water

According to the Act of determining the wells without license, after reviewing of individuals’ complaints against the state in “Commission of matters relating to groundwater”, the sentence will be issued by a judge, a member of the Commission. The sentences issued by this Commission are reviewed by the Administrative Justice Court within 20 days after the notification. While, according to Articles 10 and 63 of AJC Act, this court is basically a judicial authority that firstly, the sentences of other courts are not within the competence of it; and secondly, it follows a different order for reviewing the commissions. Therefore, this paper seeks to define the supervisory jurisdiction of AJC on aforesaid Commission is a specific jurisdiction and it varies from AJC’ jurisdiction under paragraph 2 of Article 10 of the AJC Organization and Procedure Act. It includes the appellate jurisdiction of AJC against the sentences of a particular judicial authority.