The members of the Senate, an Upper House of the Kazakh Parliament, have approved the law on reforming the judicial system and improving procedural legislation. The document has been sent to President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev for his signature. Amendments have been made to the criminal, civil, and administrative procedure codes, as well as to a number of other laws. Thus, judicial acts on administrative cases will enter into legal force after appeal. Furthermore, the review of cases in the Supreme Court will be carried out in exceptional cases, upon the recommendation of a Supreme Court judge or the protest of the Prosecutor General. Additionally, new terms of review of criminal and civil cases have been established in the cassation court. They will not exceed six months. The rules for appealing to the cassation instance have also been simplified. As noted by Senate members, all the amendments aim to strengthen the guarantees of Kazakh citizens' right to judicial protection and access to open and fair justice.
«The creation of independent cassation courts, the referral of all types of legal proceedings to cassation courts, and the introduction of unified rules for reviewing judicial acts. In order to simplify the rules for appealing to the cassation instance, the petition for the review of judicial acts submitted by citizens in criminal and civil cases has been changed to a cassation appeal,» said Nurlan Beknazarov, a member of the Senate, the Upper House of the Kazakh Parliament.
«By adopting this draft law, MPs have firstly improved the mechanism of the independence of cassation courts and access to continuous cassation. The rules are being standardized, meaning that criminal, civil, and administrative cases will all follow the same procedural order,» noted Nurserik Sharipov, Chairman of the Judicial Collegium for Civil Cases of the Supreme Court of Kazakhstan.
Web-editor: Гайни Жумабек
Related Articles
