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JUDICIAL CONTROL OVER CRIMINALLY REMEDIAL MEASURES OF RESTRICTION IN KAZAKHSTAN: ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF A DRAFT LAW OF A NEW THREE-TIER MODEL

Summary: 1. Introduction. – 2. The Background and Methodology of the Study on Judicial Control over Pre-trial Proceedings in Criminal Cases. – 3. Preventive Measures in Criminal Procedure and Its Indicators in the Republic of Kazakhstan. – 4. Conclusions.

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 The article considers judicial and other guarantees in the selection, authorisation, and application of such criminally remedial measures of pre-trial restriction as detention (or arrest), home confinement, and bail. These limit the constitutional rights and freedoms of the suspect and are authorised by the investigating judge. The authors analyse the legislative regulation, legal statistics, and judicial authorisation of these preventive measures. They also demonstrate the ambiguous use of bail in the period before its transfer to judicial control. In order to increase its effectiveness and reduce the number of prisoners, it is proposed to separate property surety from bail and make it an independent measure of restraint, similar to the US experience regarding commercial surety, and change the current procedure for replacing detention with bail.
The article deals with the issue of strengthening the control functions of the investigating judge when authorising home confinement as a preventive measure. In particular, the authors analyse the draft Law ‘On amendments and Additions to Some Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on optimisation of criminal legislation with simultaneous correction of the Criminal Procedure and Penal Enforcement Codes’ and offer their vision of further development of the norms of criminal procedure legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan on judicial control.

The authors propose to narrow the limits established by law for the application of various legal restrictions infringing on the rights and legitimate interests of suspects and preserve them only to the extent necessary to solve the public tasks of criminal proceedings.

About Authors

Maya Kulbaeva – Doctoral student, Faculty of Law, LN Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Astana, Kazakhstan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6042-6551 kulbaevamaja@gmail.com

Corresponding author, responsible for conceptualization and writing (use Credit taxonomy). Competing interests: Any competing interests were declared. Disclaimer: The author declares that her opinion and views expressed in this manuscript are free of any impact of any organizations.

Arstan Akhpanov – Dr. Sc. of Law, Professor, Professor of the LN Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Chief Researcher at the Institute of Legislation and Legal Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Astana, Kazakhstan
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3256-8875 ahpanov_a@gmail.com

Co-author, responsible for conceptualization, methodology and writing. Competing  interests: Any competing interests were declared. Disclaimer: Although the author serves as a Member of the Scientific Advisory Council under the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan, his opinion and views expressed in this manuscript are free of any impact of the Court and the Council.

Translation: The content of this article was translated with the participation of third parties under the authors’ supervision.

Funding: The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Funding for this publication was provided by authors.

Managing editor – Dr. Oksana Uhrinovska. English Editor – Dr. Sarah White.

Copyright: © 2022 M Kulbaeva, A Akhpanov. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Keywords

  • investigative judge, judicial control, restrictive measures, the enforcement of human rights and freedoms

How to cite it?

  •  Kulbaeva M, Akhpanov A ‘Judicial Control over Criminally Remedial Measures of Restriction in Kazakhstan: Analysis and Evaluation of Draft Law of a New Three-Tier Model’ 2022 4(16) Access to Justice in Eastern Europe 118-134. https://doi.org/10.33327/AJEE-18-5.4-n000426