On the results of the activity of the Constitutional Court in figures

In the first half of 2024, the Constitutional Court received more than two thousand appeals from citizens.

Citizens appealed to the Constitutional Court:

on checking the constitutionality of a law or other normative legal act or some of its provisions - 25.2% (in 2023 - 25%);
on disagreement with judicial acts - 18.7% (42% in 2023);
on amendments and additions to the current legislation - 14% (in 2023 - 5%);
complaints about the actions of law enforcement officers - 83 (59 in 2023);
with requests for clarification of legislative norms - 81 appeals (in 2023 - 69) and other issues.

Most of all, the Constitutional Court received appeals from residents of the cities of Astana (386) and Almaty (229), Akmola region (175), Karaganda region (152) and Shymkent city (124).

At the moment 112 appeals of citizens are under preliminary consideration.

At the end of the first six months of the current year, the Constitutional Court issued 39 decisions, of which judges adopted final decisions on 7 appeals of citizens to verify compliance with the Constitution, with recommendations to the Government and authorized bodies to improve the legislation in part:

norms of the Administrative Procedure Code on the procedure for appealing against measures of procedural coercion in administrative proceedings;
the norms of the Code of Criminal Procedure on determining the limits of criminal proceedings;
the norms of the Code of Criminal Procedure concerning the refusal, in practice, of defense counsel to copy transcripts of investigative actions by defense counsel involving their clients;
The provisions of the Criminal Code concerning the release on parole of persons convicted of offenses against the sexual inviolability of minors;
provisions of Order of the Minister of Justice No. 372 of December 24, 2014, regarding the withholding of alimony from persons engaged in entrepreneurial activities for the maintenance of minor children.

Also on the basis of appeals of the Prosecutor General, the Constitutional Court gave an official interpretation of the norms of Articles 25, 26 and paragraph 1 of Article 83 of the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The official interpretation of the provisions of the Constitution by the Constitutional Court is mandatory for guidance in legislative and law enforcement practice.

To date, the judges of the Constitutional Court continue to examine 17 citizens' appeals for compliance with the Constitution of the norms of laws and other normative legal acts.