L’atto introduttivo del giudizio amministrativo tra forma e contenuto

The application initiating the judicial proceedings fulfils a twofold function: first of all, it is the impetus of the whole judicial proceedings; secondly, it determines and defines the subject of the proceedings, identifying the content of the request of the party and the extent of the court’s duty to decide. The judicial application with request, rather than with citation, is only a tribute to tradition and does not in itself determine legally significant consequences. Therefore, in a fair trial parties should determine both the opening of the proceeding and the thema decidendum. On the one hand, article 111 Cost. requires that always and in every case the dispute is established at the time of service - and not at the sequent time of lodging the application. On the other hand, article 24 Cost. imposes that the identification of the logical order of the complaints must be found in the extent to which the claim is satisfied and not in the public interest of the control of lawful exercise of power.