On November 25 of this year, the director of the Institute of Parliamentarism M. Makhambetov made a report at a meeting of the Legal Council under the Nur Otan party, held in the format of a round table on the topic: "On increasing the competitiveness and equality of the parties in criminal proceedings, as well as strengthening guarantees for the protection of the rights of participants in criminal proceedings" in order to implement the Message of the Head of State K.K. Tokayev to the people of Kazakhstan dated September 1, 2021, "Unity of the people and systemic reforms are a solid foundation for the prosperity of the country".
The round table was attended by deputies of the Mazhilis of the Parliament, representatives of central state bodies, legal scholars.
The meeting was co-organized by the Committee on Legislation and Judicial and Legal Reform of the Mazhilis of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Institute of Parliamentarism, the Supreme Court, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
During the report, M. Makhambetov noted that currently, the development and improvement of criminal procedure policy and legislation is aimed at introducing an adversarial model of criminal justice. As it is known, the principle of competitiveness and equality of the parties is one of the cornerstones of the criminal procedure policy and legislation.
The basis for the introduction of this model was the ideas of the Head of State, noted in his election program and expressed by him at various venues, about the need to ensure the competitiveness of the process and the independence of the court from the prosecution.
