One of the important tasks set by the Head of State in 100 Concrete Steps to Implement Five Institutional Reforms, the Plan of the Nation, is step 81 – Development of Private Medicine, Implementation of Corporate Governancein Medical Organizations. The development of private medicine and the improvement of independence of state healthcare organizations through a gradual transition to the status of state-owned enterprises on the basis of the right of economic management with the introduction of corporate governance set new requirements to senior managers of healthcare organizations, the nature of their tasks and ways to solve them. In order to implement the project of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Kazakhstan (RK) ‘Development of Management and Corporate Governancein Healthcare Organizations’, the transition of state medical organizations on the basis of economic management has been analyzed. The methodological and advisory support is provided to medical organizations at the regional level. The regulatory framework in the area of management and corporate governance of healthcare is developed and amended. The activities of the supervisory boards of state-owned enterprises (SE) on the basis of the right of economic management (REM) have been analyzed and estimated. The data on the current secretaries of the supervisory boards and independent members of the supervisory board have been collected. The corporate governance in subordinate organizations has been rated. The rating of corporate governance is becoming an indicator of compliance with the best practices, both in state-owned and private organizations around the world. Such estimation makes it possible to analyze not only the mechanisms of work, but also to understand the dynamics of these processes. Using the in-depth approach, this instrument helps determining the potential and considerablyimproving the efficiency of the supervisory boards and the entity, as a whole.

Purpose of Study: The aim of the study is to investigate the comparative analysis of the enforcement of contracts in Lithuania and Kazakhstan. Methodology: Comparative qualitative research methods. Results: The enforcement by arbitration or mediation is not permitted in Kazakhstan. Even now, Kazakhstan fails to rely on the institutions of arbitration or mediation and neither their awards are enforceable by the civil courts. Implications/Applications: Enforcement of contracts is still developing in Kazakhstan while it has been developed and fully adopted as per international standards in Lithuania.

This article presents a comprehensive theoretical and legal study of the legal nature, legal conditions, principles, the specifics of mediation, the legal status of a mediator in the Republic of Kazakhstan, and the specifics of criminal procedural norms regulating the activities of a mediator. Conducting the research, the authors applied the following general and special scientific methods of cognition: the analysis of legal acts regulating mediation, observation, systematic and logical approaches, as well as specific scientific research methods, formal legal and historical legal methods, the research of leading international and Kazakhstan scientists who have studied this issue. The authors proposed the following improvements: to consider the possibility of normative regulation of the reconciliation of the parties at the pre-trial stage; to develop a methodology for determining the voluntariness of the victim’s agreement; the prosecutor’s explanation of the application of the institution of parties’ reconciliation; and the participation of the lawyer in the recon-ciliation of the parties in the criminal legal proceedings.