INTERNATIONAL FORUM “MODERN DIGITAL AND HR TECHNOLOGIES IN THE SELECTION OF CANDIDATES FOR JUDGES, ASSESSMENT OF THE JUDGES’ WORK AND THEIR PROMOTION”

On November 25, 2020, an online international round table entitled: “Modern digital and HR technologies in the selection of candidates for judges, assessment of the judges’ work and their promotion” was held.
The forum was organized by the Supreme Judicial Council with the assistance of the United Nations Development Program in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
At the forum, member of the Constitutional Council Mukashev R.Zh. read out the welcoming speech of the Chairman of the Constitutional Council K. Mami. It emphasized that, after almost three decades of independence, Kazakhstan had made tremendous efforts to modernize its judicial system and procedures. In accordance with the Plan of the Nation, proposed by the First President of the Republic, judicial authorities, case-handling procedures were optimized, judicial review, and the specialization of courts were expanded. Within the framework of 100 steps, the
requirements for judges were also strengthened, procedures for their selection and promotion were established to ensure that the judiciary was adequately staffed.
Modern challenges pose new challenges for the judicial system. The main ones are indicated in the current message of the President of the Republic, which opened the next stage in its modernization, K. Mami stressed.

The President of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe, Chairman of the Supreme Court, Minister of Justice of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Chairman of the High Qualification Board of Judges of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the High Judicial Council of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Chairman of the Council on the Selection of Judges of the Kyrgyz Republic and UNDP Resident Representative in Kazakhstan also welcomed the participants.