DESTINATION KAZAKHSTAN
Court and focus on our procedures
and rules.
We want more and more people, lawyers
and business people, to understand
the principles and procedures of the
common law, to enable them to better
use our facilities. We also involve our
judges in our training initiatives.
Our judges have already given lectures
to judges at the Supreme Court of
the Republic of Kazakhstan and to
Kazakh law students to assist with
understanding of the English common
law. In the AIFC Court we also have
the Court Users’ Committee, whose
purpose is to discuss the procedures,
regulations, work and services of
the Court. This committee includes
its members leading lawyers of the
Kazakhstan legal community. All this
is very important for the development
of a community of professional
lawyers in Kazakhstan and to develop
familiarity and understanding about
how the AIFC Court provides new
business opportunities for them and
their clients, and opportunities for
developing additional professional
lawyer skills. We want to contribute
to the development of a community of
Kazakhstan and international lawyers
and encourage professional knowledge
and skills exchange.
What recommendations would you
give to lawyers in Kazakhstan?
I recommend joining our legal education
program, which we will launch later
this year in cooperation with leading
international
education
partners
and the AIFC Bureau for Continuous
Professional Development. We will
provide training in English common
law for professionals in the financial
and legal sectors. This training will aim
to provide better understanding about
common law and the AIFC Acting Law
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which is based on common law. We
are already providing regular seminars
to law firms, business people, and
students, to improve understanding
about our regulations, procedures and
rules.
As we have already indicated on our
website, any lawyer with professional
lawyer qualifications and rights to
represent clients in other courts,
will automatically have the right to
represent clients in our Court. We
want to provide all possible assistance
and support to Kazakhstan lawyers
so that they can gain the full benefit
of our services in the same way as
international lawyers. We will help and
support them in the same way as other
lawyers at every stage of a case at the
AIFC Court.
You studied a lot of statistics; how
many cases are processed at other
courts in international financial
centers?
In addition to our research and
consultations, I should add that Lord
Woolf and I have considerable directly
relevant experience from our work over
many years around the world