Building a team of judicial and judicial support staff with integrity, impartiality and professionalism

Accordingly, judicial reform in 2012 has 12 general tasks:

- Advise the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee to disseminate and implement contents related to the task of judicial reform. Coordinate with the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee to direct Party committees and Party organizations to effectively implement Conclusion No. 84-KL/TW, dated July 29, 2020 of the Politburo on summarizing 15 years of implementing Resolution No. 49-NQ/TW.

- Continue to innovate and improve the quality and efficiency of the Provincial Judicial Reform Steering Committee and the standing body of the Steering Committee. Improve the organization and operation, amend and supplement the working regulations of the Steering Committee and the Working Group of the Provincial Judicial Reform Steering Committee.

Comrade Nguyen Van Thong - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee chaired the Internal Affairs Bloc meeting. Photo: Hoai Thu

- Continue to strengthen inspection, review, propose and recommend competent authorities to amend, supplement, abolish, replace and issue new legal documents issued by the People's Council and People's Committee to ensure their constitutionality, legality, consistency and synchronization with the current legal system and the practical situation of the locality. Coordinate the review of directive documents of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee on judicial reform to urge and effectively implement them; direct agencies and units to review legal documents regulating judicial reform, promptly detect inadequacies and overlaps to recommend competent agencies and levels to amend and supplement them in accordance with the legal system and practical situation.

- Direct the agencies conducting the proceedings to continue to coordinate well to improve the quality of investigation, prosecution, and trial, ensuring the right person, the right crime, "no criminals are left out, no injustice or mistakes are made". Focus on handling and resolving long-standing cases; cases of public concern; cases under the monitoring and direction of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee.

The Department of Justice coordinated with Dien Chau District Police to organize a conference to disseminate, train, and deploy coordination regulations to the commune level. Photo courtesy of PV

- Directing the improvement of the effectiveness and efficiency of law enforcement work, promptly guiding, explaining, and removing difficulties and obstacles in the enforcement of criminal, civil, and judicial law, and the organization and operation of judicial agencies, ensuring unity, effectiveness, and efficiency.

- Strengthen leadership and direction of inspection and supervision of the implementation of judicial reform tasks of agencies and localities in accordance with the spirit of Resolution No. 49-NQ/TW dated June 2, 2005 and Conclusion No. 84-KL/TW dated July 29, 2020 of the Politburo.

- Continue to direct sectors to effectively implement projects related to the implementation of Resolution 6 of the Central Committee (12th tenure) on continuing to innovate and reorganize the political system to be streamlined and operate effectively and efficiently. In particular, continue to pay attention to perfecting the organization and apparatus of the courts, prosecutors, investigation agencies, and civil enforcement agencies. Clearly define the mechanism for assignment, coordination, and control among agencies in the implementation of judicial power.

- Improve the quality of supervision by the People's Council, the Fatherland Front, and socio-political organizations over the activities of judicial agencies. Promote the people's mastery, create conditions for people to participate in supervising judicial activities, thereby recommending judicial agencies to overcome limitations in judicial activities.

Staff of the Mediation and Dialogue Center at the People's Court of Nghe An province advise and mediate cases. Photo courtesy of Duc Cuong

- Continue to direct the improvement of the quality of activities of judicial support institutions. Strengthen the direction of training and building a team of lawyers with political qualities, ethics, and professional qualifications to meet the requirements of the task. Pay more attention to the work of asset valuation, asset auction, and appraisal work related to judicial activities. Continue to improve and advise on solutions to develop the system of notary offices and law offices in localities with difficult socio-economic conditions.

- Promote propaganda, dissemination and legal education for all classes of people, enhance the role of mass media in propagating and providing information on judicial activities.

- Improve the quality of human resources and staff working in the judicial sector. Direct provincial judicial agencies to do better in planning, training, promoting, appointing and rotating staff. Build a team of judicial and judicial support staff who are truly honest, impartial, professional, politically steadfast, good at their jobs, knowledgeable about the law, qualified, capable and reputable, and able to meet the requirements and tasks in the new situation. Pay attention to and support funding, facilities and working conditions for judicial agencies. Promote the application of information technology and reform of administrative and judicial procedures in the operations of judicial and judicial support agencies.

Civil status judicial officer of Nghi Kim commune, Vinh city answers questions for people. Photo: D.C.

- Directly disseminate and strictly implement Directive No. 26-CT/TW dated November 9, 2018 of the Politburo and Instruction No. 04-HD/TW dated December 9, 2020 of the Central Secretariat on strengthening the Party's leadership over law enforcement agencies in investigating and handling cases and incidents.

In addition to the general tasks, the Provincial Judicial Reform Steering Committee also set out specific key tasks for the sectors in the Internal Affairs Bloc. In particular, it requires coordination in organizing conferences to evaluate the implementation results and study and amend and supplement the coordination regulations in the work between the Provincial Party Committee's Internal Affairs Committee and the Provincial Party Committee's Inspection Committee, the Provincial Public Security Party Committee, the Provincial People's Court Party Committee, and the Provincial People's Procuracy Party Committee.

Continue to research, advise, propose to concretize and institutionalize policies, viewpoints, tasks and solutions on judicial work and judicial reform according to the Resolution of the 13th National Congress of the Party, Resolution of the 19th Provincial Party Congress, term 2020 - 2025 in accordance with the practical situation of localities and units.

Strengthen coordination in initiating, investigating, prosecuting, adjudicating, and executing sentences to ensure the right person, the right crime, and to avoid injustice, mistakes, and missed crimes. Speed ​​up the progress and improve the quality of detecting, initiating, investigating, adjudicating, resolving, and enforcing criminal and civil sentences. Focus on discovering the causes and conditions of crimes to request and recommend relevant agencies and organizations to apply measures to overcome and prevent crimes and violations of the law.

The Provincial Party Committee's Internal Affairs Committee presides over agencies in the Internal Affairs Bloc, coordinates and advises agencies, units and localities to effectively perform citizen reception work; improve the quality and effectiveness of handling complaints and denunciations; focus on resolving complicated complaints and denunciations, not allowing them to linger; minimize complaints and denunciations that go beyond the level of authority...

Based on Program No. 02-CTr/BCĐ, based on the functions, political tasks and specific conditions of the agency and locality, the Provincial Steering Committee for Judicial Reform requests agencies, units and localities to develop specific plans to effectively implement the judicial reform task in 2022.