The article is devoted to the urgent issues of the obligatory court decision. In the article the author analyzes the definition of the obligatory nature of the court decision in the scientific legal literature and legal acts. Particular attention in the work is devoted to determining the binding nature of the court decision in matters of administrative jurisdiction. It is concluded that the binding nature of judicial decisions adopted in the course of administrative judicial proceedings has a triple nature – it is one of the fundamentals of the organization of the judiciary in the state, the principle of administration of justice in administrative cases and the property of decisions that came into force in accordance with the procedure established by law.

Keywords: judicial decision, binding decisions of courts, principles of administrative legal proceedings, binding decisions of courts as a principle of administrative legal proceedings