80 of human rights and freedoms in the judicial process. Over the past 12 months, the Commissioner for Human Rights received 329 appeals about the citizens disagreeing with court decisions, which is 26% of the total number of registered appeals. 226 complaints fall on the criminal form of legal proceedings, 91 – on civil, 12 – on administrative. Most of the complaints came from the cities of Astana, Almaty, Karaganda and Kostanay oblasts. Practice shows that the main reason for the groundless involvement of citizens in the criminal prosecution is a violation of the regulations and procedural rules at the stage of pre-trial proceedings. It is obvious that these violations were not given a timely assessment by the investigative judges, who are vested with the power of judicial control. In their appeals, the complainants often note that the basis of the sentence is usually taken as the indictment of the criminal investigating authority; the court rejects CONSOLIDATED REPORT the petition for admission to the case file of the findings of independent expert examinations, the testimony of defense witnesses; procedural irregularities are not taken into account during the investigation; indirect evidence of guilt is admitted. The above mentioned is confirmed by the data of the Prosecutor General Office of the Republic of Kazakhstan, according to which in 2018 the number of judicial acts amended and canceled in the court of appeal increased by 1.5 times. Considering protests of the prosecution authorities, the cassation court improved the situation of more than 200 convicts (12 of them were declared fully not guilty, 19 were declared partially guilty, the rest received reduced term of serving sentences and relaxed security regimes of detention)3. Indicative in this respect are the results of a visit to the establishment ES164/1 of the Department of the penitentiary system 3 http://www.nomad. su/?a=3-201812070027