Questions and answers

If your case is before the Supreme Court or the Talas District Court, look it up in the register of pending cases by number, party or subject; it is updated each week. Parties and their counsel may also ask the Registry by telephone +996-39-2-62-10-00 or at the counter, giving the case number. Notices of sittings are sent to the parties by post; the register does not replace them.

The register shows only cases pending before the Supreme Court and the Talas District Court. Cases of the other district courts and of the magistrate courts are not in it: ask the court concerned. Cases concerning minors, family cases and some criminal cases are not published to protect the persons involved. A case decided or withdrawn is removed from the register.

It means that no date of hearing has yet been fixed. Under Rule 44 of the Rules of Court a case is listed for hearing by order of the Chief Justice or of the presiding judge. When a date is fixed, the parties are notified and the date appears in the register and in the lists posted in the Hall of Justice two days before the sitting.

A party or counsel applies in writing to the Registry, giving the case number. Certified copies are issued at the counter within five working days. Judgments of public interest may be read in the reports of the Court in the Law Library; judgments of 1992–2023 are also held at the State Archives (Fond 111). Copies of judgments in other courts are issued by those courts.

The state duty is paid before filing, to the account of the treasury indicated by the Registry, at any bank branch or post office; keep the receipt and attach it to your appeal or claim. The amount depends on the kind of case and the sum claimed, under the schedule in force; the Registry tells you the amount and the account. Some applicants are exempt by law; if you think you are, say so in your application. A filing without the receipt or a decision on exemption is returned.

By post to the Hall of Justice, Liberty Boulevard 14, Talas, by e-mail to registry@court.iradgov.org, or at the Registry counter. You may use the e-Irad form OG-1. The reply is sent within 30 days. Appeals against judgments and petitions are not made by letter but in the form set by the Rules of Court. See Contacts.

Yes. Sittings are public unless the court orders a closed session, for example to protect a victim or a minor. Lists are posted in the Hall of Justice and in the register two days before each sitting. Bring your passport or identity card; bags are checked at the entrance. Photography, filming and recording in the courtroom are not allowed; journalists apply for accreditation to the press service.

Proceedings are conducted in Iradi or English. A party, witness or accused person who does not speak the language of the proceedings has an interpreter. For Russian the interpreter is provided by the Interpretation Service of the Court; tell the Registry when filing, or at the latest seven days before the hearing. Interpreters for Uzbek and Korean are also on the list.

Minor offences, small claims and administrative fines go to the magistrate courts of Talas, Nurzhan and Iyık Janyl. Civil, commercial and criminal cases at first instance go to the district courts, among them the Talas District Court. The Supreme Court hears final appeals, petitions for constitutional review and commercial cases including arbitration awards with foreign investors; it does not hear a case for the first time that belongs to a lower court. See Courts of the Zone.

In the magistrate courts and in most civil cases in the district courts you may act in person. In the Supreme Court a party may also act in person, but appeals and petitions raise questions of law, and the Court recommends to be represented. Only an advocate entered on the roll of the bar may represent another person for a fee. An accused person in a criminal case has the right to defence counsel. The Registry can tell you how to find an advocate but cannot recommend one.

Final appeals from the district courts and the magistrate courts lie to the Supreme Court. The appeal is filed at the Registry of the Supreme Court in writing, with a copy of the judgment, the grounds of appeal and the receipt for the state duty, within the time stated in the judgment. Late appeals are accepted only with leave of the Court on good cause shown.

Councils of elders (aksakals) settle many disputes on grazing, livestock and family matters under customary law. Their decision is not a judgment of a court of the Zone and is not enforced by the bailiffs. Under Plenum Resolution No. 3 of 2025 a written record of such an agreement may be used as evidence in a civil case. The customary right of herders to drive livestock across highway easements was recognised in the Pastoral Transit Case (2015). Matters arising across the Qara-Chik Demarcation Line are handled through the liaison arrangements of the 2007 ceasefire.

No. Judges do not discuss a case with one party outside the hearing, and the Court does not give legal advice. Everything you wish the court to consider is filed through the Registry and is shared with the other party. The personal reception of the Chief Justice deals with questions of the work of the courts, not with pending cases.