T.Ualieva, the chairman of the criminal court of Atyrau Regional Court presented the criminal procedure reform to the journalists

During her speech Tatti Ualiyeva noted that the proposed reform of the criminal process is carried out within the framework of the implementation of Plan of the Nation. She said that the interdepartmental working group had studied foreign experience with travel to the FRG, Great Britain, Estonia and Georgia which resulted in the drafting of the Law on the modernization of the criminal process.

The speaker noticed the reduction of the terms of procedural detention of the suspect committed a criminal offense, the introduction of an electronic criminal case, and the further expansion of judicial control. The increase of protection of the citizens’ rights, the exclusion of the practice of collecting enforcement bodies of evidence that goes beyond the scope of the case by law, the increase of the competitiveness of the process and simplification of criminal offenses, crimes of limited gravity through the introduction of decree production were also noted.

Answering the journalists’ questions, the chairman of the specialized inter-district criminal court Gulmira Dauletova spoke about the practice of considering cases by the jury. According to her the local executive body is obliged to notify citizens that they have entered a single list of jurors. But, unfortunately, this does not always happen that’s why sometimes candidates for jurors having known this refuse this work.

At the briefing the speakers also spoke about the possibility of connecting the videoconferencing with the institutions of the Criminal-Correctional System Committee and the temporary detention isolator launching the mobile version of the "Court Office", opening corners of the CSC in the courts, the possibility of obtaining an electronic power of attorney and the work of the Situation Center of the Supreme Court.