The Constitutional Court hosted a lecture for Nazarbayev University students

A group of Nazarbayev University students led by Professor Neil Collins received a lecture in the format of interactive dialog at the Constitutional Court.

CC Chairperson Elvira Azimova, Constitutional Court Judge Roman Podoprigora and Deputy Head of the Department of Reception and Primary Consideration of Appeals Nurtazin Bekzhan told about the activities of the constitutional control body and its role in promoting the state policy of the rule of law and protection of human rights. Judge of the Constitutional Court R.A. Podoprigora told about the history of development of the national constitutional control body and the peculiarities of constitutional proceedings. The speaker emphasized that in 55% of the decisions the Constitutional Court recognized the challenged norms as compliant with the Basic Law, in 30% of the decisions - as constitutional in interpretation, in 15% of the decisions - as unconstitutional. The top legal norms challenged by citizens include the rights to justice, non-discrimination and social rights.

The representative of the Constitutional Court Apparatus familiarized the audience with the results of the work of the constitutional control body for the previous year. He informed that for three months of the current year from citizens of Kazakhstan received more than a thousand appeals, 28 appeals are under consideration by judges.