The judges of the Constitutional Court took part in the international scientific and practical conference on criminal law

Chairman of the Constitutional Court Elvira Azimova , Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Court Bakyt Nurmukhanov and Judge of the Constitutional Court Kanat Mussin took part in the International Scientific and Practical Conference "Criminal and Criminal Procedure Codes of the Republic of Kazakhstan in a new constitutional dimension", organized by the Eurasian Center for Economic and Legal Studies at Narkhoz University.

The conference was attended by representatives of government agencies, the scientific community of Kazakhstan and foreign countries, members of Parliament, experts from various branches of current law and areas of jurisprudence, as well as representatives of leading national and international organizations.

In her speech, Chairman Elvira Azimova noted that the Constitutional Court in its regulatory rulings formulates legal positions that are important for the development of legislation and removes norms from the current law that do not correspond to the Basic Law.

In turn, Bakhyt Nurmukhanov made a report "Normative decisions of the Constitutional Court as a basis for further improvement of the criminal and criminal procedure legislation of Kazakhstan". He noted that the criminal legislation requires reform in order to give it conceptual integrity and consistency, to ensure the requirements of consistency, compliance with constitutional provisions.

The discussion allowed the participants to discuss ways to further optimize criminal legislation, exchange views on the implementation of constitutional values in the ideas, rules and norms of the draft Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure.