The Situations Related to the Functioning of the Administrative Judiciary in Jordan for the Year 2020: A Step Forward

The article analyses the working situations of the administrative judiciary in Jordan. In fact, after litigation in the administrative judiciary turned to of two levels represented by the Administrative Court and the Supreme Administrative Court instead of one level which was represented by the Jordanian Supreme Court of Justice (formerly), confidence has returned to the administrative judiciary through the entertainment of the case by two judicial bodies so that one of the guarantees of fair trials is that the case is entertained by more than one judicial authority and at more than one level. Actually, it is noted through this applied and practical study as well as through the tables and figures that there was an increase in the number of cases instituted before the administrative judiciary for the year 2020 compared to 2019. However, despite litigation has become of two levels, the administrative courts of first instance are not spread throughout the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, but only in the capital. Therefore, it is necessary to establish first instant administrative courts in all governorates of the Kingdom in addition to the introduction of administrative courts of appeal in the governorates of the Kingdom together with the need to develop a standard that defines the jurisdiction of the administrative judicial authorities in countries that adopt the distribution of jurisdiction over administrative disputes to more than one judicial authority in order to determine which ordinary judicial authority that enjoys general jurisdiction over some administrative disputes and to determine the administrative courts whose jurisdiction is defined by law.