Vietnam: What information is contained in the database on legal cases and issues?

Creation, management, maintenance, updating and use of database on legal cases and issues of SMEs shall be carried out in accordance with Decree No. 55/2019/ND-CP of Vietnam’s Government. Specifically, according to Article 6 of this Decree, the database on legal cases and issues contains:

- Decisions and sentences of courts, judgments and decisions made by commercial arbitrators, decisions on competition cases, decisions on imposition of administrative penalties on enterprises that are in force and allowed to be published or posted on web portals;

- Written responses given by ministries, ministerial agencies and provincial People’s Committees to legal questions of SMEs during the law enforcement;

- Documents providing legal advice by the legal consultant network about legal cases and issues at the request of SMEs.

The Ministry of Justice shall take charge of creating, managing and updating the database on legal cases and issues on the legal assistance website for SMEs; Ministries, ministerial agencies and provincial People's Committees shall update relevant information as prescribed in Clause 5 Article 7 and Clause 1 Article 8 of Decree No. 55/2019/ND-CP on their websites and send it to the Ministry of Justice within 15 days from the updating date so that the Ministry of Justice posts such updated information on the legal assistance website for SMEs.

SMEs may access and use information on the database on legal cases and issues free of charge.

View other provisions at Decree No. 55/2019/ND-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from August 16, 2019.

Thu Ba

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