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SOME ISSUES OF IMPROVING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE
REGIONAL JUSTICE BODIES
Mirzaev Islomjon Khushnazar ugli
teacher of the Pedagogical center of the Institute for retraining and advanced
training of legal personnel under the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of
Uzbekistan
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15550984
In accordance with the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the
Republic of Uzbekistan No. 171 dated March 19, 2025 “On measures for
organizing the activities of the Institute for retraining and advanced training of
legal personnel under the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan”, one
of the main tasks of the Institute is to develop scientifically based proposals for
the scientific, methodological and consultative support of the activities of justice
bodies and institutions, the provision of legal services, forensic examination,
archival work and office work sphere, as well as to further improve them by
analyzing their areas of activity.
For this purpose, it is determined that the Institute will carry out work on
developing proposals and relevant scientific and methodological manuals to
improve the effectiveness of the activities of justice bodies and institutions, in
particular, their territorial departments.
This thesis discusses some issues related to the organization and
improvement of the activities of territorial departments of the Ministry of Justice
of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
Information about the history of the ministry is provided in various open
sources, in particular on its official website (https://adliya.uz/inner-
page/vazirlik-tarixi), and the activities of the ministry have gradually improved
over the years and expanded their areas of activity.
As is known, since 2018, justice bodies have been operating in a 3-tier
system, i.e. at the republican, regional and district levels (republic - region -
district (city). It was on April 13, 2018 that district (city) justice departments
were established.
The activities of the Ministry and its organizations are regulated by the
Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. RP-3666 dated
April 13, 2018 and a number of other documents.
It should be noted that the Ministry of Justice occupies a leading position
among the ministries, committees and other agencies of the republic, is one of
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the ministries that has been performing its tasks and functions at a high level
and achieving positive results.
Nevertheless, in today's fast-paced world, it is natural to conduct research
aimed at improving the efficiency of the activities of justice bodies and
institutions, identifying shortcomings in their activities and eliminating them. Of
course, the Ministry of Justice and its structures in the system are constantly
working to improve their activities. However, since employees of justice bodies
are mainly busy with the implementation of the tasks assigned to them, current
affairs, and also because it may be useful to look at the activities from the
outside, it is advisable to conduct independent scientific and practical research.
According to paragraph 9 of the Regulation on the Ministry of Justice of the
Republic of Uzbekistan, approved by the Resolution of the President of the
Republic of Uzbekistan No. RP-3666 dated April 13, 2018 (Appendix 1),
the
following are the main tasks of the Ministry
:
to pursue a unified state policy in the field of lawmaking;
to coordinate activities on assessing the regulatory impact of regulatory
legal acts and their drafts and conducting anti-corruption expertise;
to ensure the dissemination and use of legal information;
to carry out legal propaganda and coordinate the work of state bodies and
organizations in the field of legal propaganda;
to implement measures to ensure consistent and uniform law enforcement
practice in the activities of the republican executive authorities and their
territorial divisions and local state authorities, as well as to provide
methodological assistance to these state bodies and citizens' self-government
bodies in forming a unified law enforcement practice;
to implement measures to legally protect the rights, freedoms and
legitimate interests of citizens;
to conduct studies across sectors, regions and organization and monitor the
situation on the ground to ensure the timely, full and high-quality
implementation of legislative acts and instructions;
analysis and monitoring of the effectiveness of the public administration
system based on advanced foreign experience and modern development trends;
coordination, control and methodological assistance in the activities of legal
services of state bodies and organizations, as well as ensuring the provision of
legal services to state bodies and organizations established by legislative acts;
ensuring the effective functioning of notaries, law firms and other
structures providing legal services to individuals and legal entities;
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participation in the development and implementation of measures to
combat the legalization of proceeds from criminal activities, the financing of
terrorism and the financing of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction;
implementation of state policy in the field of developing the activities of
non-governmental non-profit organizations, assistance in organizing their
interaction with state bodies and organizations;
implementation of a single state policy in the field of administrative
procedures;
implementation of a single state policy in the field of providing public
services to individuals and legal entities;
improvement of the procedure for providing public services by eliminating
unnecessary administrative procedures, as well as the development of
interdepartmental electronic cooperation;
monitoring and assessing the effectiveness of the activities of state bodies
and other organizations in the field of public services, including the
implementation of relevant information systems, resources and databases;
developing a unified state policy in the field of intellectual property and
protecting rights to inventions, trademarks, copyrights and other intellectual
property objects;
legal protection of inventions, utility models, industrial designs, trademarks
and other intellectual property objects;
organizing the training, retraining and advanced training of legal personnel,
ensuring the implementation of fundamental and applied research in the field of
jurisprudence;
developing priority areas for the development of forensic expertise,
coordinating the training and advanced training of forensic experts;
analyzing the indicators of the Republic of Uzbekistan in international
ratings and indices in the political and legal sphere;
establishing and strengthening international legal cooperation, conducting
legal expertise of international treaties;
ensuring the legal protection of the interests of the Republic of Uzbekistan
in international and foreign organizations;
coordination of the activities of state bodies and organizations related to
maintaining a unified electronic register of mandatory requirements in the field
of entrepreneurship;
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implementation of a unified state policy in the field of archival work and
business administration and coordination of the work of state bodies and
organizations in this area;
implementation of a unified state policy in the field of personal data and
control and coordination of the activities of state bodies and organizations in the
field of working with personal data.
They were established in an updated form with the addition of a number of
new tasks by the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. DP-
80 dated May 24, 2024. Clause 10 of the Regulation lists the numerous functions
of the Ministry that it performs in accordance with the 26 tasks assigned to it
above.
The Ministry performs the tasks and functions assigned to it directly, as
well as through justice bodies and institutions, including territorial justice
departments.
In accordance with Clause 8 of the above-mentioned Regulation on the
Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the Ministry system includes:
- The central office of the Ministry;
- The Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, regional and
Tashkent city justice departments, district (city) justice departments, legal
service centers, public service centers and bodies of registration of civil status
documents;
- “Uzarxiv” agency, territorial departments of archival work of the Republic
of Karakalpakstan, regions and Tashkent city, National archive of Uzbekistan,
National archive of cinematographic and photographic documents of Uzbekistan,
National archive of scientific, technical and medical documents of Uzbekistan,
Central state archive of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, Central state archive of
Tashkent city, regional, city and district state archives and their branches;
- Personalization agency;
- Republican center for rorensic expertise named after Kh. Sulaymonova;
- State enstitution “Adolat” national legal information center”;
- State institution “Center for development of information and
communication technologies in justice bodies and institutions”;
- State institution “Center for intellectual property”;
- State notary offices and archives;
- Institute for retraining and advanced training of legal personnel;
- Institute for analysis and assessment of the impact of legislation;
- Tashkent state university of law and its academic lyceums;
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- law colleges.
Territorial justice departments have a special place in this system. The
central office of the Ministry, the Ministry of justice of the Republic of
Karakalpakstan, territorial justice departments, and district (city) justice
departments are law enforcement agencies.
Territorial justice departments
:
The middle-level justice bodies are the Ministry of justice of the Republic of
Karakalpakstan, regional and Tashkent city justice departments. They include
their internal departments, legal colleges, archives of bodies of registration of
civil status documents, the notary archive, and district (city) justice departments
in their system.
District (city) justice departments:
District (city) justice departments include their internal departments, legal
service centers, public service centers, bodies of registration of civil status
documents and notary offices in their system.
Territorial justice bodies assist the Ministry in implementing a unified state
legal policy. Nevertheless, some negative factors can cause deficiencies in their
activity. For example, according to practitioners, some of the following
conditions may have a negative impact on performance:
1. Some legal service centers are assigned staff units consisting of 3
employees, and due to the large volume of work, it is physically difficult to
perform them fully and qualitatively. As a result, they have to work more
overtime.
2. Legal service centers receive documents for review from various state
bodies and organizations. Due to the fact that many documents are not legal-
technically and linguistically correct, the main working hours of the center's
employees, in addition to legal examination of documents, are spent on their
legal-technical and linguistic correction.
In order to eliminate these situations, the following can be given as
preliminary suggestions. Incorporation of staff units responsible for legal
technical and linguistic formalization of documents in the centers. Or require
employees of relevant state bodies and organizations responsible for working
with legal documents to have at least a secondary specialized legal education.
Currently, legal colleges of the Ministry of Justice in each territorial unit are
training graduates. In addition, measures can be taken to reduce the workload
by automating recurring shortcomings in the future.
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In general, in order to improve the efficiency of the activities of territorial
justice bodies, we consider it appropriate to conduct research and analysis in the
following areas and identify existing shortcomings:
- increasing human resources potential;
- considering the issue of digital transformation, the use of artificial
intelligence in conducting of each function;
- improving the monitoring and evaluation system;
- relations with public;
- internal control;
- improving infrastructure.
It should be noted that the opinions expressed in this thesis are based on
the existing situation and are preliminary. In order to develop further
scientifically based proposals to improve the effectiveness of the activities of
territorial departments and departments of justice, it will be necessary to
directly study the activities of territorial departments, conduct internships in
them, study foreign experience, obtain and analyze statistics, study the opinions
of practitioners, etc.
References:
1. https://adliya.uz/inner-page/vazirlik-tarixi
2. Adliya organlari tomonidan boshqa tashkilotlarda nazorat tadbirlarini amalga
oshirish va ta’sir choralarini (namunalar) qo‘llash tartibini ishlab chiqish
asoslari: O‘quv qo`llanma / tuzuvchilar: S.Maripova, V.Usmonov. – T.:
O‘zbekiston Respublikasi Adliya vazirligi qoshidagi Yuristlar malakasini oshirish
markazi, 2022. - 78 b.
3. Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. 171
dated March 19, 2025 “On measures for organizing the activities of the Institute
for retraining and advanced training of legal personnel under the Ministry of
Justice of the Republic of Uzbekistan”.
4. Resolution of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. RP-3666 dated
April 13, 2018.
