The Constitutional Court discussed the issues of access to justice and implementation of normative rulings

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The fifth meeting of the Scientific Advisory Council, held jointly with the Expert Council of the Commission on Human Rights under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, was held in the Constitutional Court.

The meeting was attended by members of Parliament, judges of the Constitutional Court, representatives of the Supreme Court, the General Prosecutor's Office, the Ministry of Justice, the Judicial Administration, the Academy of Law Enforcement Agencies, the Republican Bar Association, as well as leading scholars and legal experts.

The agenda of the meeting included three questions. The first was devoted to criminal procedural aspects of access to justice. Reports on this topic were made by Dr. A.N. Akhpanov, Doctor of Law, Professor of Astana International University, and Dr. S.G. Pen, PhD in Law, Provost of Maqsut Narikbayev University.

The second question concerned the discussion of the draft annual message of the Constitutional Court on the state of constitutional legality in the Republic of Kazakhstan, with which the participants were familiarized by the representative of the Apparatus of the Constitutional Court.

The third question was devoted to the consequences and measures of implementation of normative rulings of the Constitutional Court on the recognition of norms as compliant with the Constitution as interpreted by the Constitutional Court. These aspects were analyzed by V.A. Malinovsky, PhD, Director of the Center for Constitutional Economics of the Eurasian Institute of Economic and Legal Studies at Narkhoz University, and M.H. Hasenov, PhD, Associate Professor at Maqsut Narikbayev University.

During the meeting there was a constructive exchange of views, in which the participants discussed current challenges and proposed specific measures to improve legislation and law enforcement practice.

Based on the results of the discussion, the recommendations of the Scientific Advisory Council will be sent to the interested state bodies to be taken into account in the rule-making activity.