Implementation of Directive 14
On January 10, Lawyer Tran Duc Long, Member of the Party Committee, Secretary of the Party Committee, Vice President of the Vietnam Lawyers Association, as Head of the working delegation, together with members of the delegation, including: Lawyer Luong Mai Sao, Member of the Party Committee, Chief of the Party Committee Office, Member of the Central Standing Committee of the Association, Head of the Personnel Organization Committee; Lawyer Duong Dinh Khuyen, Member of the Central Standing Committee of the Association, Head of the Legal Consulting and Legal Aid Committee and Lawyer Le Khac Quang, Deputy Head of the Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Committee (Vietnam Lawyers Association) came to work with the Soc Trang Provincial Party Committee on the coordination of leadership and direction in implementing Directive No. 14 - CT/TW of the Politburo.
Receiving the delegation of the Vietnam Lawyers Association, there were Ms. Ho Thi Cam Dao, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairwoman of the People's Council of Soc Trang province, leaders of the Soc Trang Lawyers Association and representatives of departments, branches and sectors of the province.
Lawyer Tran Duc Long, Member of the Party Committee, Secretary of the Party Committee, Vice President of the Vietnam Lawyers Association.
Lawyer Tran Duc Long said that on July 1, 2022, the Politburo issued Directive 14 on continuing to strengthen the Party's leadership over the Vietnam Lawyers Association in the new situation.
On October 12, 2022, the Politburo and the Secretariat sent Mr. Phan Dinh Trac, Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Internal Affairs Commission to attend and directly disseminate Directive 14 to all levels of the Vietnam Lawyers Association.
Mr. Phan Dinh Trac also directed the Vietnam Lawyers Association to continue to coordinate with provinces and cities to thoroughly grasp and implement Directive 14 to promote the role of the Vietnam Lawyers Association in the new situation.
The Party Committee of the Vietnam Lawyers Association promptly issued a plan to implement Directive 14. After a period of dissemination and implementation, the Provincial Party Committee and People's Committee of Soc Trang province immediately issued documents to implement Directive 14 and the Soc Trang Provincial Lawyers Association also had a plan to implement it afterwards.
This shows the efforts and serious implementation of the Directive of the Provincial Party Committee and People's Committee of Soc Trang province.
Soc Trang Provincial Bar Association has also coordinated with the Provincial Party Committee in leading and directing the work of the Provincial Bar Association to meet the requirements of the new situation.
According to Lawyer Tran Duc Long, today's discussion aims to grasp the contents related to the leadership, direction of work and activities of the Soc Trang Provincial Lawyers Association in the past time. Especially, since implementing Directive 14 of the Politburo, the Vietnam Lawyers Association has been used as a basis for synthesizing and reporting to the Politburo and the Secretariat.
Representative of Soc Trang Provincial Bar Association reported on the Association's activities to the working delegation.
Activities of Soc Trang Lawyers Association in 2023
Reporting to the working delegation, the representative of the Soc Trang Provincial Bar Association said that there are 5 district-level Bar Associations, 37 branches under the Provincial Bar Association, 46 branches under the district level with 1,211 members, all of whom have a firm political stance, good moral qualities, a sense of organization and discipline, are exemplary, uphold a sense of responsibility, overcome many difficulties, improve themselves, improve their professional skills, and perform well their assigned tasks.
Under the leadership and direction of the Provincial Party Committee, People's Council and People's Committee of Soc Trang province in synchronously and effectively implementing tasks and solutions for socio-economic development; together with the solidarity and consensus of all levels, sectors, localities, enterprises and the entire people, the socio-economic situation of the province continues to maintain its growth rate and achieve remarkable results.
Accordingly, the Lawyers Association of Soc Trang province has actively coordinated with units at the same level to participate in implementing programs and plans of the People's Committee at the same level, especially disseminating legal education; providing legal advice on enhancing people's ability to access the law; and on communes, wards and towns meeting legal access standards.
Representatives of departments, branches and sectors of Soc Trang province attended the exchange session.
The Provincial Bar Association at all levels always focuses on and actively participates in contributing ideas to build legal policies, participating in seminars and conferences on law, socio-economics organized by the Central and the Province.
In particular, the participation in contributing to the draft of the Land Law (amended), the Housing Law (amended), and the Real Estate Business Law (amended) were identified as the key contents of participation of the Lawyers Association at all levels. The lawyers have promoted their roles and knowledge well, participating in contributing ideas to build many other legal documents in 2022 and 2023.
In 2023, the Soc Trang Provincial Bar Association coordinated with the Detention Center and the Provincial Police to organize 4 sessions to disseminate and educate the law and provide direct legal advice to more than 200 prisoners serving their sentences on the topics of community reintegration, legal provisions on recidivism, re-danger, criminal record deletion, etc.
The Provincial Law Association also distributed the legal document "Things to know before reintegrating into the community" compiled by the Vietnam Lawyers Association to serve as legal support to help prisoners easily return to normal life.
In addition, the Soc Trang Provincial Law Association integrates legal dissemination and education activities in many forms, such as: direct legal dissemination and education, through the loudspeaker system, coordinating with radio and television stations of districts, towns and cities to open "Legal dissemination and education" columns.
Thereby, it has propagated to the people in many forms, contributing to raising the awareness of law observance of the people in the province.
Working group of Vietnam Lawyers Association.
With a core role, the Legal Consulting Center (under the Soc Trang Provincial Bar Association) has performed well in legal consulting and legal aid work locally; in 2023, it received and directly consulted people on over 600 cases (nearly 500 cases were free of charge).
At the same time, the Legal Consulting Center also regularly performs the task of consulting, answering questions, and providing legal guidance to individuals and organizations with requests. 182 cases in the fields of criminal, civil, land, wills, and family are all trusted by public opinion.
Thereby, contributing to raising awareness, sense of law compliance, resolving problems, supporting people, especially ethnic minorities and vulnerable groups; providing free consultation for the poor, women, children, policy beneficiaries, and meritorious people in the province...
Legal aid and mediation work at the grassroots level continued to have positive changes. Also in 2023, lawyers participated in receiving and handling 779 cases, mediating more than 3,200 cases, of which nearly 2,900 cases were successfully mediated.
Every year, the Provincial Association strives to complete its tasks excellently. In 2022, the Soc Trang Provincial Bar Association received a Certificate of Merit from the President of the Vietnam Bar Association and a Certificate of Merit from the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee.
At the meeting, representatives of departments, branches and sectors of Soc Trang province and members of the Vietnam Lawyers Association Delegation gave many comments and suggestions to improve the coordination in leadership and direction of implementing Directive No. 14 - CT/TW of the Politburo.
Ms. Ho Thi Cam Dao - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairwoman of the People's Council of Soc Trang province spoke at the meeting. (Photo: Trong Nghia).
Speaking at the meeting, Ms. Ho Thi Cam Dao - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairwoman of the People's Council of Soc Trang province said that the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee was very pleased to welcome the delegation of the Vietnam Lawyers Association.
At the same time, the Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee highly appreciated the achievements of the Soc Trang Provincial Lawyers Association and the need to maintain and promote them.
Besides, the Provincial Bar Association is still confused and facing difficulties in its activities. In the future, the Provincial Party Committee will have solutions to create conditions for the Association to better perform its role and responsibility.
Ms. Ho Thi Cam Dao requested the Internal Affairs Committee, the Department of Justice and related departments, agencies and sectors to create favorable conditions to help the Soc Trang Provincial Lawyers Association in coordination work. In addition, the Soc Trang Provincial Lawyers Association needs to properly perform its role, tasks and operate in accordance with the Association's purpose and principles.
"The Party Delegation and the Vietnam Lawyers Association will continue to support and coordinate with Soc Trang province to effectively achieve political goals in the new situation," the Standing Deputy Secretary of the Soc Trang Provincial Party Committee wished.
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