Goal:
The goal of this project was to increase public awareness of corruption in Kazakhstan’s judicial system, to raise standards through research and analysis of both the country’s legal system and the informal practices that surround it, and to apply the experience of fighting corruption in other countries to Kazakhstan.
Objects of the project:
The general objectives of the project were:
- To determine the causes and level of corruption in the judicial system.
- To evaluate the roles of different officials in the judicial process.
Specific objectives of the project were:
- To develop concrete proposals for reform and deliver them to the administration.
- To develop mechanisms for fighting corruption, particularly those involving the media and society at large.
- To dismantle the loopholes in existing legislation that encourage corruption.
- To apply international experience of fighting corruption to Kazakhstan.
- To produce and publish the report “Courts Without Corruption” (circulation 1,000 copies) containing the research results.
Project results:
The most important achievements of the project were:
- Proposals to modernise existing legislation were drawn up based on the research. These were submitted to the Security Council, Ministry of Justice, Supreme Court and Parliament of Kazakhstan.
- The results helped develop proposals for practical changes in the administration and the judiciary designed to fight corruption, as well as the formulation of a code of conduct. These will be published in magazines and the mass media in order to promote discussion
- “Courts Without Corruption”, a summary digest of the research results, was published.
- Mechanisms were developed to improve the delivery of judicial services. The project also helped formulate new roles for other bodies to play in the fight against corruption including the non-governmental sector, business, state and international organisations.
- A series of round-table discussions on the results were held.
Courts without corruption
