Improving the Quality of Judicial Personnel Training; Reviewing and Rationally Arranging Law Bachelor Training Institutions as Required by the Government of Vietnam
Enhancing the Quality of Justice Sector Training and Rationalizing Law Bachelor Training Institutions as Required by the Government of Vietnam
Recently, the Government of Vietnam issued Resolution 77/ND-CP in 2023 on the Action Program of the Government of Vietnam to implement Resolution 27-NQ/TW in 2022 of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 13th Central Committee of the Communist Party on continuing to build and improve the socialist rule of law state of Vietnam in the new period.
To promote the role of the Government of Vietnam in building a professional, modern, fair, strict, and transparent judicial system in service of the Homeland and the people, the Government of Vietnam assigns a number of tasks as follows:
- Enhance the role, professionalism, and quality of legal aid, especially in judicial proceedings; modernize and increase the application of information technology in the legal aid system; expand the scope of recipients eligible for legal aid in line with the country's conditions.
- Develop sufficient judicial staff, ensure quality, and have a reasonable structure. Enhance the quality of judicial staff training; review and rationalize law bachelor's training institutions.
Additionally, the Ministry of Education and Training is tasked with taking the lead in cooperation with the Ministry of Justice and related ministries and central authorities to direct educational and training institutions to incorporate appropriate content on the Constitution and the socialist rule of law state of Vietnam into the training and fostering programs of the national education system; review and rationalize law bachelor's training institutions.
Requirements include clearly defining professional standards, political acumen, ethical qualities, professional responsibilities, legal, economic, social knowledge, and practical experience for each judicial position and personnel. Enhance the recruitment mechanism to appoint judicial positions through competitive examinations.
Innovate policies on salaries, appointment terms, and mechanisms to ensure the judiciary workforce can work with peace of mind, integrity, fairness, and professionalism, meeting the demands of the new situation.
- Improve the legal framework for lawyers and the practice of law, ensuring that lawyers can effectively perform their rights, obligations, and responsibilities as prescribed by law. Enhance the state management efficiency and the self-management responsibility of social-professional organizations regarding lawyers, while strengthening discipline and order within the legal profession.
Enhance training, fostering, building, and developing a team of lawyers with strong political qualities, clean professional ethics, profound legal knowledge, proficient legal practice skills, and foreign languages, meeting the demands for judicial reform and international integration.
Enhancing the Quality of Justice Sector Training and Rationalizing Law Bachelor Training Institutions as Required by the Government of Vietnam?
What Actions Are Required by the Government of Vietnam Concerning Orders and Procedural Decisions of Investigative Bodies Canceled by the Procuracy?
Also in Resolution 77/ND-CP in 2023, the Government of Vietnam assigns responsibilities to ministries, ministerial-level agencies, and related organizations to undertake the following tasks:
- Improve policies and laws within the functions, tasks, powers of the Government of Vietnam relating to judicial activities, ensuring respect for and protection of human rights and citizens' rights.
- Continue to review, adjust, and perfect the functions, tasks, and organizational structure of investigative bodies and other agencies tasked with conducting certain investigative activities in a streamlined, professional, high-quality, effective, and efficient manner, meeting the assigned tasks and contributing to ensuring human rights and citizens' rights for detained, arrested, temporarily held, and temporarily detained persons in accordance with the law.
Study and improve the mechanism for investigative agencies to propose reconsideration and resolution in cases where procedural decisions of investigative agencies are canceled or not approved by the procuracy inconsistent with legal provisions.
- Innovate the organization and activities of the execution system. Perfect criminal execution mechanisms to further enhance the effectiveness of managing, educating, and reforming inmates; managing, supervising, and educating persons executing criminal sentences in the community; ensuring and better protecting human rights and citizens' rights for persons executing sentences in accordance with the law.
Perfect mechanisms to enhance the quality and effectiveness of civil and administrative execution in a more time-efficient and cost-effective manner. Enhance cooperation efficiency among agencies in the execution of criminal, civil, and administrative sentences; implement private investment in certain civil execution activities with appropriate assurance mechanisms and roadmaps.
- Continue to perfect mechanisms for mobilizing resources for private investment in and developing notarial, mediation, arbitration, bailiff, and judicial expertise fields; build a professional workforce in these fields in sufficient quantity and quality, compliant with legal and professional ethical standards, meeting societal needs.
Will Relevant Content on the Constitution Be Included in the National Education System's Training Program?
This is one of the tasks the Government of Vietnam has set out in Resolution 77/ND-CP in 2023 to promote propaganda, dissemination, and education, raising awareness about the socialist rule of law state of Vietnam, specifically as follows:
- Promote propaganda, dissemination, and education to raise awareness among cadres, party members, officials, and public employees, and various strata of the population about the Constitution and laws, and the characteristics of the socialist rule of law state of Vietnam, and the requirements and tasks of continuing to build and perfect the socialist rule of law state of Vietnam in the new period.
- Build a culture of respecting the Constitution and laws within the administrative system. Enhance the sense of responsibility and capacity of cadres, party members, officials, and public employees in implementing the Constitution and laws. Specify and build mechanisms for subjects to fully exercise their rights and responsibilities in protecting the Constitution.
- Include relevant content on the Constitution and the socialist rule of law state of Vietnam in the training and fostering programs of the national education system.
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