The Committee on Constitutional Legislation, Judicial System and Law Enforcement Agencies considered the draft Law On Amendments to the Civil Procedural Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning the Introduction of Modern Formats of Court Operations, Reduction of Excessive Legal Proceedings and Costs.
The draft law was developed to modernize and optimize civil proceedings as part of the instructions given by the President of the country.
The main goal of the draft law is to optimize the proceedings, make them modern and unhindered, both for the court and for the parties to the proceedings.
The draft law is intended for further improving the format of the court operations in the current context, approaches to resolving cases and the content of the adversarial nature of the judicial process, development of conciliation procedures, digitalization of the civil proceedings, optimization of the proceedings, when the court addresses simple issues without calling the parties, reducing excessive proceedings and judicial acts.
For the Kazakh entrepreneurs to access the benefits of English law, the draft provides for an option of addressing the court of the Astana International Financial Center as agreed by the parties.
“The draft law also provides for other innovations regarding the electronic protocol, remote participation in the proceedings, the use of electronic gadgets and other technical means by the parties to the proceeding, the exclusion of some interlocutory judgments made by the judge, which, in their essence, do not carry a legal burden,”Senator S. Aitpayeva said.
The adoption of the draft law will allow introducing modern formats of the court operations with due regard to international best practices, such as providing a new format for the court to interact with the parties and other participants to the legal proceedings and improving the efficiency of the proceedings by reducing unnecessary calls of the parties to the court and eliminating certain redundant judicial acts.
