Administrative Law

Public Agency Disputes

Understand the decision, preserve the deadline and choose the proper remedy for a dispute with a Georgian public authority.

Confidential assessmentConsultation language agreed in advanceScope and timing agreed after assessment

Advokato can help individuals and businesses assess an administrative decision, refusal or failure to act. Agreed work may include a decision and deadline review, a chronology and evidence-gap list, a request for accessible case materials, an administrative complaint or court claim, and representation. We first identify the authority, your affected right, the actual remedy and any special procedure. A social-support application, a damages claim and challenging an existing decision are different tasks; contacting us does not itself lodge an appeal or suspend enforcement.

The right route starts by assessing current law, facts, documents and deadlines together. This page provides a practical framework; an individual strategy is formed only after a confidential case assessment.

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These are starting points for Georgian administrative disputes, not a single timetable for every public-authority matter.

General Administrative Code Article 180 ordinarily gives one month from publication or official notification of an act for an administrative complaint, unless the law provides otherwise. Action, inaction and a missed decision deadline require their own assessment.
Administrative Procedure Code Article 2(5) generally requires using the administrative-complaint opportunity once before court, subject to statutory exceptions. Articles 22(3) and 23(3) use different starting events for challenges to individual acts and refusals; verify the actual claim and notification before calculating time.
General Administrative Code Article 184 and Administrative Procedure Code Article 29 govern suspension with exceptions. Assess urgent harm and any necessary application rather than relying on an assumed pause.
Order 47/n of 13 October 2026, effective 15 October, added the IDP cash-compensation procedure to the housing rules. Its new Article 3¹(7) provides for a director's individual administrative act challengeable in court; the commission determines application periods. Check the specific act and admissibility requirements, not an assumed open intake or a general complaint route.

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Procedure

How the matter is managed

01
Send an initial summary identifying the authority, the decision or missing response, the date received and the result you seek. Flag any enforcement date; agree a suitable channel before sending sensitive documents.
02
Identify the operative act, proof of notification, applicable special rules and whether an administrative complaint must first be used. Prepare a deadline and procedural-route assessment.
03
Compare the reasons given with the application, evidence and accessible agency file. Identify missing records and lawful requests; access to third-party or protected material is not unrestricted.
04
Agree the scope and prepare the appropriate complaint, claim or other request, including an interim-protection application where justified. Preserve filing and delivery evidence.
05
Review the response and agree any hearing, court representation, further appeal or enforcement work separately. A favourable procedural ruling may require reconsideration rather than automatically granting the requested benefit.

Documents

Initial checklist

The complete decision, refusal letter, notice and attachments, with envelope, electronic delivery record or publication details showing relevant dates.
Your application, registration/receipt confirmation, requests for additional information, replies and any previous complaint or court papers.
A short chronology and the records supporting the disputed facts, such as eligibility, payments, property, permits or inspection findings.
For an IDP cash-compensation decision: the submitted household form, supporting records, monitoring findings available to you, prior housing-programme history and the director's act or refusal notification.
Representation documents and translations if needed. Provide identity, household, health or financial records only through the agreed channel and only where relevant.

Risks

Common mistakes

Treating the date of an informal conversation as the only relevant deadline evidence, or assuming that further correspondence restarts time.
Using an ordinary administrative complaint where the applicable act or special procedure requires a different route; court admissibility must also be checked.
Assuming that a complaint, court filing or consultation automatically stops every enforcement measure. Suspension rules have exceptions.
Confusing programme cash assistance with damages for unlawful public action, or assuming that a successful challenge guarantees a payment, licence or dwelling.

Typical scenario

From facts to an action plan

Hypothetical example: an internally displaced family receives a cash-compensation refusal after household monitoring. The lawyer compares the application with the recorded household facts, obtains accessible reasons and the operative act, preserves notification evidence and assesses the court route and deadline. Correcting an error may support a challenge; it does not establish eligibility, promise compensation or decide whether accepting cash instead of housing is right for that family.

Official sources

Check the current rule

Editorial guidance and cited provisions checked on 30 October 2026. AI-assisted general information; not advice on an individual decision or a claim of review by a named lawyer.

General Administrative Code of Georgia — complaint, file-access and suspension provisions Administrative Procedure Code of Georgia — Articles 2, 22, 23 and 29 Order 47/n, 13 October 2026 — IDP cash-compensation procedure

FAQ

Direct answers to practical questions

Answers are general and do not replace individual legal advice.

01What will I receive?+

The agreed stage can produce a written route and deadline assessment, an evidence-gap checklist, a case-file request, a complaint or claim draft and representation. Specify included filings, hearings and response review. A later appeal or enforcement stage is not automatically included.

02What determines the fee?+

The number of acts, special legal regime, volume of evidence, missing file materials, translations, urgency and agreed agency or court stages affect the quote. Professional fees are agreed before work. Court charges, possible exemptions, experts, translations, appeal and enforcement costs are assessed separately; no fixed price is assumed.

03How long will it take?+

Preparation depends on the complete file, urgency, availability and agreed scope. Statutory complaint or court deadlines are separate from preparation and from the time needed for a decision. Ask for immediate deadline assessment; do not wait for a quote, extra records or negotiations to assume time has stopped.

04Does the new IDP cash procedure guarantee compensation?+

No. Order 47/n requires programme-history and household checks, monitoring and a decision. Application periods are set by the commission. The director's act, written refusal notice and delivery evidence help identify the appropriate challenge. This is internal displacement in Georgia, not an international asylum procedure; we do not promise intake availability, housing or payment.

05Is this the same as claiming damages from the state?+

No. Reversing an act, obtaining a new decision, requesting programme assistance and recovering proven loss involve different requirements. We identify the requested remedy and any additional claim. Consultation language, remote participation and representation arrangements are confirmed for the matter; website translations do not establish availability in every language.

Next step

Tell us about the matter, confidentially.

A brief initial note helps us route the matter to the relevant lawyer. For an urgent matter, call to check availability.

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