08 Tasks, powers of Justice Services in the state management on lawyers and law practice in Vietnam

According to Article 5 of Decree 123/2013/ND-CP stipulates that the Justice Services assisting provincial-level People's Committees to perform the state management on lawyers and law practice in the localities shall have the following tasks and powers:

1. To assess and submit dossiers to provincial-level People's Committees for deciding to permit setting up bar associations, approving the Congress's results of bar associations and dissolving bar associations;

2. To chair and coordinate with Department of Home Affairs in assessment, submit to provincial-level People's Committees for considerations and approvals of Projects of organization of tenure Congresses, structural plans of the managing boards of bar associations and councils of commendation and discipline in new terms;

3. To grant and withdrawal the Certificate of operation registrations of Vietnamese law-practicing organizations, foreign law-practicing organizations in Vietnam;

4. To provide information on operation registrations of Vietnamese law-practicing organizations, foreign law-practicing organizations in the localities to state agencies, organizations and individuals having requirements as specified by law;

5. To request bar associations providing information on the organizations and activities of lawyers, request law-practicing organizations to provide reports on structural and operational situations when necessary;

6. To periodically report to the Ministry of Justice, provincial-level People's Committees on situations of Vietnamese lawyers and law practice, organizations and activities of foreign law-practicing organizations and foreign lawyers in the localities;

7. To act as counselor and propose supporting measures for development of the lawyer profession in the localities to provincial-level People’s Committees;

8. To carry out examination, inspection and settlement of complaints, denunciations on organizations and activities of bar associations and law-practicing organizations in accordance with their competence or authorization of Minister of Justice, Chairpersons of provincial-level People's Committees; handle administrative violations of lawyers, law-practicing organizations and bar associations in accordance with their competency and legal provisions.

More details can be found in Decree 123/2013/ND-CP, which comes into force from November 28, 2013.

Ty Na

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