(Not) Following the Leader Uzbekistan: The new Kazakh personal insolvency law, effective from 3 March 2023,4 is replete with telltale signs of this kind of simple sabotage. . During the process of collecting comments and revising the bill, drafters inserted a restriction that debtors seeking out-of-court bankruptcy demonstrate an “absence of owned property, including property in joint ownership”.78 While the Russian and English statutes apply only to debtors with no non-exempt property (ie, no property value that would otherwise be available to creditors), the Kazakh law leaves out this crucial qualification. It admits to out-of court bankruptcy only debtors owning no property of any kind