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The Legal Framework for Mediation in Kazakhstan: Current State, Expectations of Public Recognition and Perspectives for Development

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New Developments in Civil and Commercial Mediation

Part of the book series: Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law ((GSCL,volume 6))

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This Chapter includes an overview and analysis of the legal framework for mediation in Kazakhstan. Established principles and process of mediation, legal status of mediators and requirements with respect to the form and content of the mediation agreement, as well as the meaning and consequences of successful and failed mediation are described in the Chapter. Issues of cross-border mediation, recognition and enforcement in Kazakhstan of foreign mediation settlements, as well as possibilities for use of electronic means for mediation in Kazakhstan are also considered. Special consideration is paid to theoretical views of the most authoritative Kazakhstani scholars concerning the meaning of mediation and correlation of this ADR device (new for Kazakhstan) with other forms of disputes resolutions available under the national laws. Separate focus is made on current results of practical implementation of the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 28 January 2011 “On Mediation” during the period after its introduction, including certain statistics, as well as on assessments of the Law and perspectives of further development of mediation in Kazakhstan.

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  1. 1.

    Please note, that according to definitions included into Art 2 of the Law “On Arbitration” and Art 2 of the Law “On International Arbitration” the term “competent court” means “a court of the judicial system of the Republic of Kazakhstan which in accordance with the civil procedural legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan is authorized to settle disputes arising out of civil-law relations as the court of first instance”.

  2. 2.

    Please note that each time when a reference to an article of a law is made to being followed by a figure in round brackets such figure indicate a particular clause of the article.

  3. 3.

    See: The Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 28 January 2011 “On Mediation” in English is allocated on the official website of the Union of Judges of the Republic of Kazakhstan (http://www.ujk.kz/union/?sid=133, accessed 24 August 2013) and on the website of the Center of Mediation and Alternative Disputes Resolution in Almaty (http://elmediacia.kz/images/file/first/01e.pdf, accessed 18 June 2014).

  4. 4.

    Please note, that these documents are available to subscribers to the Information System “Yurist” (the Kazakhstan Legal Database as the part of the Information Systems “PARAGRAPH”) – see: http://online-zakon.kz, accessed 17 June 2014.

  5. 5.

    See: Basin and Suleimenov, Arbitrazhniye sudy v Kazakhstane: problemy pravovogo regulirovaniya (Arbitration Tribunals in Kazakhstan: Problems of Legal Regulations). Published in: Arbitration Tribunals in Kazakhstan: Problems of Legal Regulations (materials of the international scientific and practical conference held in Astana on 3 February 2003). Responsible editor – Suleimenov. / Almaty: KazGYuU, 2003 (306 pages). P. 19.

  6. 6.

    See: Suleimenov, Chastnoye processual’noye pravo (Pravo al’ternativnogo razresheniya sporov) (The Private Procedural Law (the Law of an Alternative Dispute Resolution)). Published in: Law Monthly Bulletin “Yurist” (the Lawyer). – Almaty, 2011 (#2). P. 13.

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    See: Suleimenov, Mediaciya v Kazakhstane: tekyscheye sostoyaniye i perspecktivy razvitiya (Mediation in Kazakhstan: Current Status and Perspectives for Development). Published in: Law Monthly Bulletin “Yurist” (the Lawyer). – Almaty, 2009 (#12). P. 13.

  8. 8.

    See: Klemenkova, Drugoi istochnik pravosudiya (Other Source of Justice). Published in the weekly bulletin “Strana I Mir” (The Country and the World) #14, 2 April 2012.

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    See: Sholimova, Preimuschestva i primery razresheniya sporov (Mediation: Benefits and Examples of Dispute Resolution) – http://www.zakon.kz/analytics/4560329-mediacija.-preimushhestva-i-primery.html, accessed 16 June 2014.

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    See: The Status and Perspectives for Development of the Institute of Mediation in the Circumstances of Social Modernization of Kazakhstan: materials of the international scientific and practical conference held on 19 October 2012. – Astana: “Institute of Legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan”, 2012 (172 pages). (www.izrk.kz/images/stories/mediacia86.pdf, accessed 10 August 2013).

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    See: Suleimenov and Duisenova, Razvitiye arbitrazha i mediatcii v Kazakhstane (Development of Arbitration and Mediation in Kazakhstan). Published on the website of Kazakhstan International Arbitrage: www.arbitrage.kz/461, accessed 16 June 2014 (file 15).

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    See: Suleimenov, Razvitiye mediatcii kak al’ternativnogo sposoba razresheniya sporov (Development of Mediation as Alternative Way of Disputes Resolution). Published on the website of Kazakhstan International Arbitrage: www.arbitrage.kz/461, accessed 16 June 2014 (file 6).

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    See: http://www.mediation.kz/index.php?newsid=24 (as of 7 August 2013).

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    See: http://juvencourt.kz/ru/mediatsiya-v-kazakhstane-pervyi-opyt-vnedreniya-i-primeneniya-%C2%A9.html, accessed 20 August 2013.

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    See: Sultanova, Po soglasheniyu – mirovomy ili mediativnomu (According to an agreement – amicable settlement or mediation). – http://www.zakon.kz/4632552-po-soglasheniju-mirovomu-i-mediativnomu.html) accessed 17 June 2014.

  17. 17.

    See: Mediaciya: perviye resultaty (Mediation: First Results) at: http://press.mediaovd.kz/ru/?p=1150, accessed 20 August 2013.

  18. 18.

    See: http://juvencourt.kz/ru/mediatsiya-v-kazakhstane-pervyi-opyt-vnedreniya-i-primeneniya-%C2%A9.html, accessed 20 August 2013.

  19. 19.

    See: “Kazakhstanskiye sudii ignoriruyun Zakon o mediacii” (“Kazakhstani Judges Ignore the Law On Mediation”), published at: http://www.zakon.kz/4450458-kazakhstanskie-sudi-ignorirujut-zakon-o.html , accessed 16 June 2014.

  20. 20.

    See: Klemenkova, Drugoi istochnik pravosudiya (Other Source of Justice). Published in the weekly bulletin “Strana I Mir” (The Country and the World) #14, 2 April 2012.

  21. 21.

    See: Beknazarov’s interview to Ukrainian mass media on 25 June 2013 at: http://www.nomad.su/?a=10-201306260021, accessed 16 June 2014.

  22. 22.

    See: Akmetova, Blaschenko and Karlash, Mediaciya v Kazahstane: pervii opyt vnedreniya i primeneniya (Mediation in Kazakhstan: the First Experience of Introduction and Application). – http://juvencourt.kz/ru/mediatsiya-v-kazakhstane-pervyi-opyt-vnedreniya-i-primeneniya-%C2%A9.html , accessed 20 August 2013.

  23. 23.

    See: Karabayev, O perspecktivah razvitiya institute mediacii v ugovovnom sudoproizvodstve (On Perspectives of Development of the Notion of Mediation in Criminal Proceedings). – www.zakon.kz/187584-o-perspektivakh-razvitija-instituta.html, accessed 16 June 2014.

  24. 24.

    See: Suleimenov and Duisenova, Byt’ li nezavisimoi mediacii v Kazahstane? (Whether an Independent Mediation will Exist in Kazakhstan?). Published on the website of Kazakhstan International Arbitrage: www.arbitrage.kz/461, accessed 16 June 2014 (file 26).

  25. 25.

    See: Suleimenov, Razvitiye mediacii kak al’ternativnogo sposoba razresheniya sporov (Development of Mediation as Alternative Way of Disputes Resolution). Published on the website of Kazakhstan International Arbitrage: www.arbitrage.kz/461, accessed 16 June 2014 (file 6).

  26. 26.

    See: Suleimenov, Mediaciya v Kazahstane: tekuscheye sostoyaniye i perspectivy razvitiya (Mediation in Kazakhstan: Current Status and Perspectives for Development). Published in: Law Monthly Bulletin “Yurist” (the Lawyer). – Almaty, 2009 (#12). P. 17.

  27. 27.

    See: Suleimenov and Duisenova, Byt’ li nezavisimoi mediacii v Kazahstane? (Whether an Independent Mediation will Exist in Kazakhstan?). Published on the website of the Kazakhstan International Arbitrage: www.arbitrage.kz/461 (file 26), accessed 18 June 2014.

  28. 28.

    See: The Code of Rules of Conduct for Professional Mediator of the PA “United Center of Mediation and Peacemaking “Mediation”, approved by the Management Board of this Center on 25 March 2011 and its General Assembly on 5 August 2011. – http://www.mediation.kz/index.php?do=static&page=akti, accessed 17 June 2014.

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    See: http://elmediacia.kz, accessed 17 June 2014.

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    See: http://kazmediation.kz, accessed 17 June 2014.

  31. 31.

    See: “Implementation of Agreements Reached in Mediation in the CIS Member States” (review of the International Scientific and Practical Conference dedicated to alternative dispute resolution in the CIS (from national to international instruments of dispute settlement) held in Minsk, Belarus on 21 June 2013. – http://www.zakon.kz/analytics/4567196-ispolnenie-soglashenijj-zakljuchennykh.html, accessed 17 June 2014.

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    See: “Implementation of Agreements Reached in Mediation in the CIS Member States” (review of the International Scientific and Practical Conference dedicated to alternative dispute resolution in the CIS (from national to international instruments of dispute settlement) held in Minsk, Belarus on 21 June 2013. – http://www.zakon.kz/analytics/4567196-ispolnenie-soglashenijj-zakljuchennykh.html, accessed 17 June 2014.

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    See: Suleimenov and Duisenova, Razvitie arbitrazha i mediacii v Kazahstane (Development of Arbitration and Mediation in Kazakhstan). Published on the website of Kazakhstan International Arbitrage: www.arbitrage.kz/461 (file 15), accessed 17 June 2014.

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    See: Suleimenov and Duisenova, Razvitie arbitrazha i mediacii v Kazahstane (Development of Arbitration and Mediation in Kazakhstan). Published on the website of Kazakhstan International Arbitrage: www.arbitrage.kz/461 (file 15), accessed 17 June 2014.

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    See: Beknazarov’s interview to Ukrainian mass media on 25 June 2013 at: http://www.nomad.su/?a=10-201306260021, accessed 24 August 2013.

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    See: Ganiyeva, Informatsionniye tehnologii v sovremennyh sudah Kazahstana (Information technologies in modern courts of Kazakhstan). – http://sud.kz/rus/content/informacionnye-tehnologii-v-sovremennyh-sudah-kazahstana , accessed 17 June 2014.

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Karagussov, F. (2015). The Legal Framework for Mediation in Kazakhstan: Current State, Expectations of Public Recognition and Perspectives for Development. In: Esplugues, C., Marquis, L. (eds) New Developments in Civil and Commercial Mediation. Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law, vol 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18135-6_13

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