Is it permissible to wear sunglasses when attending the civil Court sessions in Vietnam for having pink eye?

Is it permissible to wear sunglasses when attending the civil Court sessions in Vietnam for having pink eye?

Pursuant to Article 234 of the Civil Procedure Code in 2015 stipulating internal rules of Court sessions as follows:

1. When entering the courtroom, everyone shall conform to the security testing of the forces responsible for protecting the Court session.

2. Arms, murder weapons, explosives, flammable substances, poisons, radioactive substances, objects banned from circulation, leaflets, banners and other documents and objects affecting the seriousness of the Court sessions are prohibited from bringing into the Court sessions, except for exhibits serving the resolution of the cases or arms and tools that competent persons used for protecting the Court session.

3. Participants in a Court session at the request of the Court must present their subpoenas, invitations and other relevant papers to the Court reporter at clerk's desk at least 15 minutes before the opening time of the Court session and must take seats in the courtroom according to the guidance of the Court reporter; people who are late must present the required papers to the Court reporter via the security forces of the Court session.

4. Journalists attending a Court session to collect and communicate information about the happening of the Court session must comply with the direction of the presiding Judge of the Court session about press gallery. Journalists shall record audio or video of the trial panel only when allowed by the presiding Judge of the Court session. The recording of audio and video of involved parties or other participants in the procedure must be agreed by them.

5. Any one attending the Court sessions must wear serious costume and must respect the trial panel, keep silent and must comply with the direction of the presiding Judge.

6. Persons attending the Court sessions must not wear hats and color glasses in the courtrooms, unless they have plausible reasons and are permitted by the presiding Judge to do so; use of cell phones, smoking, eating, drinking and other acts affecting the solemnity of the Court sessions are not allowed in the courtrooms.

7. All participants in a Court sessions who are summoned by the Courts shall be present at the Court sessions throughout the course of trial, unless they are permitted by the presiding Judges to leave the courtrooms for plausible reasons.

People who are under 16 must not get into courtrooms, unless they are summoned by the Courts to attend the Court session.

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As regulations above, persons attending the Court sessions must not wear color glasses in the courtrooms, unless they have plausible reasons and are permitted by the presiding Judge to do so.

If you have pin eye, you can ask the judge for permission to wear sunglasses in the courtroom.

What are administrative fines for wearing sunglasses when attending the civil Court sessions in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Clause 2 Article 23 of the Ordinance on Sanctions of Administrative Violations for Acts of Obstructing Proceedings in 2022 stipulating acts of violating the rules of court sessions as follows:

2. A warning or a fine of between VND 100,000 and 500,000 shall be imposed for one of the following acts:

a) Using the phone, creating noises or committing other acts to cause disorder at the court hearing;

b) Leaving the electronic device in the state of turning off the camera or turning off the microphone sound despite being reminded by the presiding judge;

c) Failing to get up when the trial panel enters the courtroom or when the trial panel pronounces a sentence without the permission of the presiding judge of the court session;

d) The defendant fails to stand up when the procurator announces the indictment or decides to prosecute without the permission of the presiding judge;

d) Smoking, eating and drinking in the courtroom;

e) Wearing informal clothes, hats, hats, or colored glasses in the courtroom without plausible reasons and without the consent of the presiding judge;

g) The defendant in temporary detention contacts other people who are not his defense counsels without the permission of the presiding judge;

h) Persons between full 14 years old and under 16 years old have been reminded but still enter the court room, unless summoned by the court to participate in the court hearing.

Therefore, according to the above provisions, if you wears sunglasses without consent of the judge during the trial, you will be administratively sanctioned from 100,000 VND to 500,000 VND.

Is it permissible to change judges of the civil Court sessions in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Article 53 of the Civil Procedure Code in 2015 stipulating replacing Judges or People’s Jurors as follows:

Judges and/or People’s Jurors must refuse to conduct the civil procedures or be replaced in the following cases:

1. In one of the cases prescribed in Article 52 of this Code;

2. They are in the same trial panel and have a close relationship with one another; in this case, only one person is allowed to participate in the civil procedures;

3. They participated in first-instance, appellate, cassation or reopening procedures in the resolution of such civil cases and have issued first-instance judgments, appellate judgments/decisions, cassation or reopening decisions, civil matter resolving decisions, decisions to terminate the resolution of civil cases or decisions to recognize the agreement between involved parties; if such persons are members of the Council of Judges of the Supreme People’s Court or Committees of Judges of Collegial People’s Courts, they shall be allowed to participate in the resolution of such cases according to cassation/reopening procedures;

4. They have acted as proceeding officers in such cases in the capacity as the ombudsperson, the Court clerk, the prosecutor or the inspector.

As regulations above, there are 04 cases in which it is permissible to change judges of the civil Court sessions in Vietnam.

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