Hanoi (VNA) – President Nguyen XuanPhuc has emphasised the need to build an open and transparent court and judicial sector under thepublic supervision for the people and serve the people in the best way.
The President, who is also Head of the Central Steering Committee for Judicial Reform, made the request during a working session with the Party Civil Affairs Committee of theSupreme People’s Court on judicial reform of the court sector in Hanoi on October 15.
President Phuc hailed courts for theirachievements in judicial reform over the past years, helping to protectcitizens’ rights, State interests, and legitimate rights and interests ofindividuals and organisations and to create a healthy and stable environment for socio-economic development and international integration.
He commended the courts for successfullydealing with corruption with thousands of serious and complex economic cases beingbrought to light. The leader requested continuing reclaiming embezzled assets for theState and encouraging offenders to voluntarily compensate in corruption andeconomic cases.
The Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Justice and local authorities were asked to work closely with courtson the serious enforcement of sentences, especially in civil cases inlocalities while listening to public aspirations.
Courts all all levels wereassigned to suggest amendments and supplements to the Law on Organisation ofPeople’s Courts, the Civil Procedure Code, the Law on Administrative Procedure,the Law on Bankruptcy and the Law on Child Protection.
The Supreme People's Court must promptly improve the working quality of people’scourts, adopt technological advances to successfully build e-courts, discovershortcomings in court hearings, and build a contingent of qualified staffcapable of joining in the settlement of international disputes, thus meetingglobal integration demand, he said.
In the past tenure, courts nationwide received over 2.4million cases and handled 97.6 percent of the total. Over 7,400 serious corruption and economiccases were brought to trials with 14,450 defendants. The court sector publicised morethan 733,000 verdicts and decisions on its portal./.