Methods of legal regulation

Imperative Dispositive

4) The system of the Financial law: General and Particular parts.

5) Financial legal norms: obliged, forbidden and authorized.

6) Legal base of the monetary system:

- monetary unit

- types of banknotes

- order of issue

- currency regime

- order of monetary circulation

7) Financial instruments: denomination, devaluation, and revaluation.

Glossary:

№	На русском языке	На казахском языке	На английском языке
	Финансовое право	Қаржылық құқық	Financial law
	Бюджет	Бюджет	Budget
	Кредит	Несие	Credit
	Денежная система	Қаржылық жүйе	Monetary system

Task for IWS: Make up a report on state monetary funds.

Task for IWS under teacher’s control: Study methods of formation and distribution of monetary funds.

The list of the reference: Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan (1995), 2005 / Г.С. Сапаргалиев. Основы государства и права Республики Казахстан, Алматы, 2004. / Казахстан, Алматы. / А.И. Худяков. Финансовое право Республики Казахстан, Общая часть, 2002, стр. 45.

KAZAKH-AMERICAN UNIVERSITY HAND-OUTS Principles of law. Faculty of Economics and Law 2 credits Fall 1st year / AB group Lecture #10: Principles of the tax law. Instructor: Kuatova Aida Sh., ass. Prof.

Outline*:

1) Tax law is a unity of legal norms, which regulate public relations in connection with tax activity of the state.

2) Sources of the tax law:

- Constitution

- RK code “Of taxes and other obligatory payments to budget” (Tax code)

- Regulatory legal acts adopted by RK Parliament and Government

- Regulatory legal acts adopted by the Ministry of state income

3) Types of taxes:

- Corporate income tax.

- Individual income tax.

- VAT

- Excises.

- Taxes and special payments for oil producers.

- Social tax.

- Land tax

- Transport tax

- Property tax

- Special tax regime for subjects of small scale business

- Special tax regime for farmers

Glossary:

№	На русском языке	На казахском языке	На английском языке
	Налоговое право	Салық құқығы	Tax law
	Налог	Салық	Tax
	Налоговый режим	Салық режим	Tax regime
	Налоговая деятельность	Салық іс	Tax activity

Task for IWS: Make up a report on one of the given types of taxes.

Task for IWS under teacher’s control: Study the particular regulatory legal act dedicated to taxes.

The list of the reference: С.В. Скоробогатов. Правовые основы предпринимательства, Алматы, 2004./ RK code “Of taxes and other obligatory payments to budget”.

KAZAKH-AMERICAN UNIVERSITY HAND-OUTS Principles of law. Faculty of Economics and Law 2 credits 1 semester Lecture #11: Principles of the labor law and social security. Instructor: Kuatova Aida Sh., ass. Prof.

Outline*:

6) Labor law regulates labor relations between an employer and an employee concerning fulfillment of a certain work, as a rule on the base of a labor individual or collective contract made between both sides.

7) Task for IWS 1: Study an appropriate article of the RK Labour Code and write out employee’s main rights and obligations.

8) Task for IWS2: Study an appropriate article of the RK Labour Code and write out employer’s main rights and obligations.

9) Labor contract:

- Individual

- Collective (?)

Individual labor contract:

- employer’s name, his position

Employee’s name, as well as _________________________(?)

- function

- term of the contract

- date of starting

- labor terms

- working hours and rest

- payment terms

- employer’s rights and obligations

- employee’s rights and obligations

- order of contract change, termination and prolongation

- order of compensation payment and guarantees

- liabilities of sides

- other terms (up to sides)

10) Duration of working time (?)

11) Types of social security:

- pensions

- state benefits

- state address social assistance

- social services

- compensations

- preferences

Task for IWS3: Make up a report on each type of social security.

12) Principles of the law of social security:

- social justice (it corresponds to the concept of the social state – Comment; support of the deserving life standard, correspondence between consequences of unfavorable life circumstances and level of social security)

- legality (exact and complete execution of the law by state bodies, non-governmental organizations, individuals, unity and leadership of the law)

- humanism (recognition of the human right to development, provision of deserving life standard in case of disability, old age etc.)

- equality of citizens and organizations before law and court (equal rights and obligations for citizens and organizations; no matter what form (?) of a legal entity or its location – equal requirements and rights)

- democracy (not only declaration of human rights and freedoms but their guarantee as well, rights of workers are realized through trade unions) Glossary:

№	На русском языке	На казахском языке	На английском языке
	Трудовое право		Labor law
	Пособия		State benefits
	Социальная услуга		Social service
	Льготы		Preferences
	Достойный уровень жизни		Deserving life standard
	Профессиоанльные союзы		Trade unions

Reference: 1) RK Labor Code, A, 2009. 2) Хамзин А.Ш., Право социального обеспечения Республики Казахстан, А, 2006г.

KAZAKH-AMERICAN UNIVERSITY HAND-OUTS Principles of law. Faculty of Economics and Law 2 credits 1 semester Lecture #12: Principles of the ecological and land law. Instructor: Kuatova Aida Sh., ass. Prof.

Outline*:

1) The subject of the ecological law is unity of legal norms, which regulate public attitude in the sphere of interaction between society and environment.

2) Sources of ecological law.

- Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan

- The Law “Of environmental protection”

- The Law “Of land”

- The Law “Of mineral resources and their use”

- The Water code of the RK

- The Forest code of the RK

- The Law “Of protection, reproduction and use of fauna”

- The Law “Of air protection”

- The Civil code of the RK

Task for IWS1: Find out articles dedicated to environmental protection; including issues of liability in administrative ad penal codes (share the tasks in the group).

3) The main principles of the RK environmental law:

a) Provision of stable development of the Republic of Kazakhstan (?)

b) Provision of ecological safety

c) Ecosystem approach to regulation of environmental relations

d) State regulation in the sphere of environmental protection and state governance in the sphere of usage of natural resources

e) Obligatory character of preventive measures aimed at prevention of ecological pollution and committing damage to environment in any other forms (?)

f) Inevitability of liability for violation of the RK environmental law

g) Obligatory character for compensation of damage committed to environment

h) Order requiring payment and permission for influence on environment

i) Using ecologically peaceful and resources saving technologies in usage of natural resources and influence on environment

j) Interaction, coordination and plurality of state bodies’ activity responsible for environmental protection (?)

k) Stimulation of nature-users to prevention, decrease or liquidation of environmental pollution, decrease of wastes

l) Availability of ecological information (?)

m) Provision of national interests in usage of natural resources

n) Harmonization of the RK environmental law with the norms of the international law (?)

o) Presumption of ecological danger of planned economic or other kind of activity and obligatory character of appraisal of impact on environment and human health while making decision about its using

Task for IWS under teacher’s guide: Comment points marked with “?” and underlined statements.

4) State regulation in the sphere of environmental protection:

a) Licensing of activity in the sphere of environmental protection*

b) Ecological rate setting

c) Technical regulation in the sphere of environmental protection

d) State ecological expertise*

e) Delivery of ecological permissions

f) State ecological control*

g) System of economic regulation of environment, stimulation of introduction of the best ecologically peaceful technologies, system of financing of arrangement for environmental protection

h) State ecological monitoring*

i) State registration of nature-users, sources and parts of environmental pollution

j) Ecological education and enlightenment

Task for IWS2: Make up a report on points d, f, h marked with {*}.

Task for IWS3: Make up a report on main principles and regulations of the land law from the RK Land code.

Glossary:

№	На русском языке	На казахском языке	На английском языке
	Окружающая среда		Environment
	Животный мир		Fauna
	Экосистемный подход		Ecosystem approach
	Неотвратимнсоть ответстенности		Inevitability of liability
	Нормирование		Rate setting
	Земельное право		Land law

Reference: RK ecological code, A, 2008; RK Land code, A, 2009.

KAZAKH-AMERICAN UNIVERSITY HAND-OUTS Principles of law. Faculty of Economics and Law 2 credits 1 semester Lecture #13-14: RK criminal law. Instructor: Kuatova Aida Sh., ass. Prof.

Outline*:

1) Criminal law is a unity of legal norms, which define principles and grounds for criminal liability, as well as the list of publicly dangerous actions recognized as criminal ones. It also defines measures of criminal prosecution used in relation to persons guilty in committing criminal offences. The criminal law establishes grounds for discharge from criminal liability and punishment.

2) Criminal offence is ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________(study article 9 of the RK Penal code).

Task for IWS 1: Write out three main attributes of the criminal offence:

a) ________________

b) ________________

c) ________________

3) Categories of crimes:

- of light gravity

- of middle gravity

- grave

- extremely grave

Task for IWS 2: What’s the ground for such classification? (Article 10 of the RK Penal code)

4) The ground for criminal liability is availability of Corpus Delicti. It consists of the following elements:

- object

- objective side

- subjective side

- subject

Task for IWS under teacher’s guide: Clear out the elements of Corpus Delicti and its subordinate points.

5) Task for IWS 3: Types of punishment in the criminal law (RK Penal code, article 39).

6) Task for IWS under teacher’s guide: Aggravating and mitigating circumstances in the criminal law, as well as circumstances excluding criminality of an action.

7) Tasks for IWS4: Make up a report on:

- Abolishment of the capital punishment

- Combating corruption in the RK

Glossary:

№	На русском языке	На казахском языке	На английском языке
	Уголовное преступление	Қылмыс	Criminal offence
См статью 9 УК РК.
	Уголовная ответственность	Қылмыс жауапкершілік	Criminal liability
	Тяжесть	Салмақ	Gravity
	Наказание	Жаза	Punishment

Reference: Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan (1995), 2005 / Рогов И.И., Уголовное право РК, А, Жеты жарғы, 2002.

KAZAKH-AMERICAN UNIVERSITY HAND-OUTS Principles of law. Faculty of Economics and Law 2 credits 1 semester Lecture #15: RK Procedural law. Instructor: Kuatova Aida Sh., ass. Prof.

1. Principles of the civil procedure:

1) Legality

2) Implementation of justice by court only

3) Trial protection of human rights, freedoms and legal interests

4) Respect for human honor and dignity

5) Inviolability of private life. Confidence of correspondence, telephone, post, telegraph and other types of messages

6) Inviolability of property

7) Independence of judges

8) Equality of everyone before law and court

9) Language of legal procedure

10) Competitiveness and equality of sides

11) Appraisal of evidences by own persuasions

12) Discharge from the duty to give testimony

13) Provision of the right to qualified legal assistance

14) Publicity of legal procedure

15) Provision of safety while legal procedure

16) Obligatory character of acts of the trial

17) Freedom of appeal of procedural actions and decisions

Task for IWS1: Comment the underlined statements.

1. Principles of the criminal procedure are the same as in the civil procedure including the following:

1) Inviolability of an individual

2) Inviolability of habitation

3) Presumption of innocence

4) Inadmissibility of repeated criminal prosecution

5) Comprehensive, complete and objective investigation of case circumstances

Task for IWS2: What three principles are included into presumption of innocence?

1. Criminal cases:

- Of private prosecution and accusation

- Of private-public prosecution and accusation

- Of public prosecution and accusation

Task for IWS3: Make up a report on types of criminal cases (article 32 of the RK PPC)

Trial participants at the criminal procedure:

- Suspect

- Accused

- Defendant

- Advocate

- Victim

- Private prosecutor

- Plaintiff

- Respondent

- Representatives of both sides

- Witnesses

- Expert

- Specialist

- Translator

- Witness at an official search

- Secretary

- Bailiff

Task for IWS4: 1) Differentiate the first three participants. 2) Make up a report on trial participants at the civil procedure.

Glossary:

№	На русском языке	На казахском языке	На английском языке
	Гражданский процесс		Civil procedure
	Уголовный процесс		Criminal procedure
	Убеждения		Persuasions
	Гласность		Publicity
	Неприкосновенность		Inviolability
	Недопустимость		Inadmissibility
	Уголовное преследование		Criminal prosecution
	Осуждение		Accusation
	Истец		Plaintiff
	Судебный пристав		Bailiff

Reference: Criminal procedural of the RK, A, 2011; Civil procedural code of the RK, A, 2011.