The subject. The paper deals with the procedural issues of imposition of administrative sanctions by the courts.The purpose of the paper is to identify how the form of proceedings impacts on the rights and obligations of administrative trial participants.Methodology. The author uses the methods of analysis and synthesis, as well as dialectic approach. The formal-legal interpretation of the Code of Administrative Offences, the Code of Administrative Proceedings, the Commercial Procedure Code of the Russian Federation and is also used.The main results and scope of their application. The rules of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation are "average" according to their nature, they are designed for application by a lot of authorities competent to impose administrative sanctions.The focus of the rules of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation is to regulate the procedure for imposition of administrative sanctions and to define the punishment for an administrative offense. Therefore, the civil procedural form is not applicable here and the rules of the Civil Procedure Code and Code of Administrative Proceedings of the Russian Federation shouldn’t be used."Procedural form" in cases of administrative offenses considered by arbitration courts is mainly represented by the rules of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation. The accused person can receive a little from actually judicial (civil) procedural form.The serious contradictions of the Code of Administrative Offences with the rules of the Commercial Procedure Code of the Russian Federation couldn’t be seen, on the one hand, but, on the other hand, the provisions of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation have a different focus. The results of research may be used as the basis of correction of Code of Administrative Offences, the Commercial Procedure Code of the Russian Federation and may also inspire new researches concerning procedural issues of imposition of administrative sanctions by the courts.Conclusions. Participants in simplified administrative proceedings fall into a double trap: they are initially deprived of guarantees of procedural form due to the predominance of the rules of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation and are again deprived of the "remains" of procedural form because of using the simplified proceedings. Empowering the courts with the authority of administrative jurisdiction does not correspond to the current trends in the development of legislation.