ON THE PRINCIPLE OF LEGALITY IN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDINGS OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN

The article is devoted to a comprehensive analysis of the content and role of the principle of legality in the administrative proceedings of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The purpose of the study is to clarify the normative and doctrinal understanding of the principle of legality, to identify its relationship with the principles of fairness, proportionality and protection of the public interest. The research is based on a comprehensive approach, including an analysis of regulatory legal acts, a review of foreign experience, as well as statistical dataanalysis.

The methodological basis consists of formal legal, comparative legal, systemic and structurally functional methods based on the analysis of the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Administrative Procedural Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan and judicial practice of specialized administrative courts. It is shown that the principle of legality acts as the backbone of the administrative process, but its implementation is complicated by conflicts of jurisdiction between administrative and civil courts, gaps in legal regulation and heterogeneity of approaches to assessing public interest and administrative discretion. The necessity of a material understanding of legality is substantiated, assuming its interpretation in unity with the requirement of justice and effective protection of subjective rights, as well as further improvement of legislation and judicial practice, taking into account foreign experience in the development of administrative justice.

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