The Supreme Judicial Council of the Republic of

announces a contest for vacant positions of judges of

local and other courts: for the city Astana: court of the city Astana – 5 vacant positions;

Almaty district court (civil jurisdiction) – 3 vacant positions; district court No.2 of Saryarka district (criminal jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position;

Saryarka district court (civil jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position; specialized inter-district administrative court – 3 vacant positions; specialized inter-district economic court – 3 vacant positions; for the city :

Almaty municipal court – 6 vacant positions;

Alatau district court (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position;

Almalinsk district court (criminal jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position;

Auezov district court (criminal jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position;

Bostandyk district court (civil jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position;

Medeu district court (general jurisdiction) – 3 vacant positions; district court No.2 of Almalinsk district (civil jurisdiction) – 2 vacant positions; district court No.2 of Auezov district (civil jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position; specialized inter-district administrative court – 3 vacant positions; specialized inter-district economic court – 3 vacant positions;

Turksib district court (general jurisdiction) – 2 vacant positions; for :

Yessil district court (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position;

Zharkainsk district court (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position;

Kokshetau municipal court (general jurisdiction) – 2 vacant positions; specialized inter-district juvenile court – 1 vacant position; specialized inter-district economic court – 1 vacant position;

Stepnogorsk municipal court (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position; court (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position; for region:

Irgiz district court (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position; specialized administrative court of the city Aktobe – 1 vacant position; specialized inter-district economic court – 1 vacant position; court of the city Aktobe (civil jurisdiction) – 9 vacant positions; court No.2 of the city Aktobe (criminal jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position; for :

Enbekshikazakh district court (general jurisdiction) – 2 vacant positions;

Iliy district court (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position;

Karassay district court (general jurisdiction) – 2 vacant positions;

Karassay specialized inter-district administrative court – 1 vacant position; district court No.2 of Raimbek district (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position; specialized inter-district court for criminal cases – 1 vacant position; specialized inter-district economic court – 4 vacant positions;

Taldykorgan municipal court (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position;

Talgar district court (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position; for region:

Atyrau municipal court (civil jurisdiction) – 3 vacant positions;

Zhylyoisk district court (general jurisdiction) – 2 vacant positions; specialized administrative court of the city Atyrau – 2 vacant positions; specialized inter-district court for criminal cases – 1 vacant position; court No.2 of the city Atyrau (criminal jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position; for East-Kazakhstan region:

Zyryanovsk district court (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position; district court No.2 of Zyryanovsk district (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position;

Ridder municipal court (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position;

Semey municipal court (civil jurisdiction) – 5 vacant positions; specialized administrative court of Shemonaikhinsk district – 1 vacant position; specialized inter-district economic court – 3 vacant positions;

Ust-Kamenogorsk municipal court (civil jurisdiction) – 4 vacant positions; for Zhambyl region:

Korday district court (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position; specialized inter-district juvenile court – 1 vacant position; specialized inter-district economic court – 2 vacant positions;

Taraz municipal court (civil jurisdiction) – 5 vacant positions; for West-Kazakhstan region:

Zhangalinsk district court (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position; specialized administrative court of the city Uralsk – 1 vacant position; court No.2 of the city Uralsk (civil jurisdiction) – 6 vacant positions; for region:

Karaganda regional court – 4 vacant positions;

Balkhash municipal court (general jurisdiction) – 2 vacant positions; military court of Karaganda garrison – 1 vacant position;

Zhezkazgan municipal court (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position;

Oktyabr district court of the city Karaganda (general jurisdiction) – 4 vacant positions; district court No.2 of Kazybekbi district the city Karaganda (civil jurisdiction) – 3 vacant positions; district court No.3 of Oktyabr district the city Karaganda (general jurisdiction) – 2 vacant positions;

Saran municipal court (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position; specialized inter-district economic court – 3 vacant positions;

Temirtau municipal court (general jurisdiction) – 4 vacant positions;

Shakhtinsk municipal court (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position; for region:

Arkalyk municipal court (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position;

Zhitikarinsk district court (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position;

Kostanay municipal court (general jurisdiction) – 4 vacant positions;

Rudnensk municipal court (general jurisdiction) – 2 vacant positions; specialized inter-district juvenile court – 1 vacant position; specialized inter-district economic court – 2 vacant positions; for region:

Zhalagash district court (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position;

Kazalinsk district court (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position;

Karmakshinsk district court (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position;

Kyzylorda municipal court (civil jurisdiction) – 2 vacant positions; specialized inter-district economic court – 2 vacant positions; court No.2 of the city Kyzylorda (criminal jurisdiction) – 4 vacant positions;

Syrdarinsk district court (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position;

Shieliy district court (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position; for Mangistau region: specialized inter-district court for criminal cases – 1 vacant position; specialized inter-district economic court – 4 vacant positions; court No.2 of the city (civil jurisdiction) – 3 vacant positions; for region:

Pavlodar municipal court (civil jurisdiction) – 6 vacant positions; specialized inter-district economic court – 5 vacant positions;

Ekibastuz municipal court (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position; for North-Kazakhstan region:

Yessil district court (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position;

Kyzylzhar district court (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position; specialized inter-district court for criminal cases – 1 vacant position; specialized inter-district economic court – 2 vacant positions; court No.2 of the city Petropavlovsk (civil jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position; court of the district named after Gabit Musrepov (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position; for South-Kazakhstan region:

Abay district court of the city (general jurisdiction) – 3 vacant positions;

Al-Farabi district court of the city Shymkent (general jurisdiction) – 3 vacant positions;

Maktaaral district court (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position; Sairam district court (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position;

Saryagash district court (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position; specialized administrative court of district – 2 vacant positions; specialized inter-district juvenile court – 2 vacant positions; specialized inter-district economic court – 3 vacant positions;

Tolebi district court (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position;

Shardarinsk district court (general jurisdiction) – 1 vacant position.

Total: 197 vacant positions of district and equivalent courts and 15 – regional courts.

Citizens, who conform to requirements, specified in clause 1 (for district and equivalent courts), clause 2 (for regional and equivalent courts) of article 29 of the Constitutional Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan “On the judicial system and status of judges of the Republic of Kazakhstan”, are admitted for participation in the contest.

The following documents should be submitted for participation in the contest:

1) Application – is submitted in the name of a Chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council, executed with his/her own hand in a distinct writing, indicating a full name of the Council, home address and contact phones, putting a signature and date.

In the application of admission to the contest a contender should indicate what particular vacant judicial position he wishes to hold and the name of a respective court;

2) Personnel record card – is executed with his/her own hand, in a distinct writing.

The name of an educational institution is indicated according to a record in the diploma.

The time of study in higher and medium educational institutions, military service and part-time work is also included when indicating the information on a labor activity. When enumerating institutions, organizations, enterprises, as well as ministries (agencies, departments), their dislocation points it is required to use their name, which was used during a labor activity of this person. The information on the labor activity of the person should be fully identical to records in a labor book and other documents.

When filling in the column “Home address and phone” it is required to indicate the address of an actual residence and phone numbers (mobile, home, working);

3) Autobiography – is composed in an arbitrary form, with compulsory description of the most important events in the life.

An autobiography is composed with his/her own hand (distinctly and neatly) either in a typewritten or computer manner, putting a signature and date of composition.

In an autobiography it is necessarily to indicate the information on opened criminal cases against a judge candidate, including those, which were subsequently terminated upon rehabilitating or non- rehabilitating bases; 4) Copy of an identity card. When submitting copies of a document with an expired date, materials are returned; 5) Notarized copy of a diploma of a higher education and enclosure to it; 6) Notarized copy of a labor book. The document should be laced up, numbered and sealed by a notary.

Employees, the information on the work of which is not recorded in a labor book or recorded not fully (employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, National Security Committee, financial police authorities), including former ones, except for a copy of a labor book, should submit certified by a chief of a respective personnel department copy of an employment sheet or certificate with indication of particular positions, certified by the personnel department.

In case of dismissal from law enforcement agencies persons submit an abstract from orders for dismissal;

7) Efficiency report, in which assessment should be given to a professional activity, business and moral qualities of a person. The information on incentives and disciplinary penalties is indicated necessarily.

An efficiency report is composed under a signature of a chief executive officer or an official, who replaces him, sealed by an organization. Except for this in the text of a document a date of its issue and reference number are indicated.

In case of impossibility for good reasons to get an efficiency report written explanations are given.

8) Standard medical certificate (form No. 086), including certificates, issued by respective psychoneurological and narcological dispensaries of regions, cities Astana and Almaty; 9) Questionnaire for acting judges or judge candidates (the form is enclosed).

Acting judges and judge candidates, who earlier held the position of a judge, submit a certificate of performance indicators for the last three years, information on bringing to disciplinary responsibility and complaints for the indicated period. Performance indicators and named certificates should be signed by a chairman of a respective regional court, sealed by this court, indicating the date. In case if there were complaints about actions of a candidate, then in a respective certificate it is required to specify a theory and result of consideration on each recourse (with compulsory indication of whether arguments of authors of the recourse were proved or not).

Judge candidates submit documents (originals or notarized copies), which certify passing by them of an examination (for master’s students) or qualification examination and testing, and also a positive comment of a plenary session on a probation. Judge candidates of regional and equivalent courts additionally present a conclusion of the plenary session of a respective regional court (original or notarized copy). A conclusion of a plenary session of a respective regional court for acting judges is not required.

All presented documents should have a signature and date of execution or approval, in necessary cases – reference number and date.

An application, personnel record card, autobiography, efficiency report, medical certificates, conclusion of a plenary session of a respective regional court (for judge candidates of the regional and equivalent court, who are not acting judges) are valid within one year from the day of their issue or execution.

Indicated documents should be submitted within one month from the moment of publication of this announcement by the place of holding a contest at the address: 010000, the city Astana, building “Ukimet uyi”, Executive Office of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

In case of improper execution documents of candidates will be returned to persons, who submitted them.

Telephone in case of query: (8-7172) 74-14-52.

The Supreme Judicial Council of the

Republic of Kazakhstan