INSTITUTIONAL RESTRUCTURING OF THE REVIEW OF JUDICIAL ACTS: THE INTERREGIONAL COURT MODEL AND THE GUARANTEE OF IMPARTIALITY UNDER DECREE NO. PF-160
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https://doi.org/10.47390/ydif-y2026v2i18/n26Keywords:
review of judicial acts, interregional court, supervisory instance, cassation, appeal, judicial impartiality, “Justice — 2030” Strategy, uniformity of case law.Abstract
The paper analyses the institutional changes in the review of judicial acts envisaged by the “Justice — 2030” Strategy, approved by Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. PF-160 of 14 August 2026. The study focuses on the model of interregional courts to be established from 1 July 2027: the power to review cases in the supervisory (taftish) instance is withdrawn from regional and equivalent courts and transferred to new courts whose jurisdiction covers several administrative-territorial units. The author assesses this change in the light of the nemo iudex in causa sua rule and the objective test of impartiality, and shows that it offers an institutional solution to the cumulation of instance powers within a single court. At the same time, it is argued that the risk of cassation degenerating into a “delayed appeal” cannot be removed by an organisational change alone: the grounds for review and the leave-to-review filter must be defined in procedural terms. The paper concludes with indicators for measuring the reform and proposals for legislative development.
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