By administrative means (В административном порядке, "V administrativnom poryadke") was an expression in use in the Soviet Union applied to the cases when some actions that normally required a collegial decision were left to the decision of certain officials, i.e., by administration, rather than by deliberation.
There were several ways to do so. A deliberating body could decide to leave some cases to be settled "by administrative means". An official could decide for himself to shortcut the deliberations; formally, these actions could be overruled collegially. Finally, some cases could be taken out of the collegial responsibilities by a statute or law.
Administrativelaw judges will be assigned to cases by the Director of the Office or by the designee of the Director.
On the motion of a party or the administrativelaw judge made subsequent to the setting conference, the administrativelaw judge for good cause shown may change the place of hearing, when the convenience of witnesses and parties and the ends of justice will be promoted by the change.
Unless otherwise ordered by the administrativelaw judge, in cases in which no prehearing conference is held, each party shall file with the administrativelaw judge and serve on each other party a prehearing statement in substantial compliance with the form as outlined in Appendix A to these rules.