The Judiciary needs to promptly advise on removing 'bottlenecks' and shortcomings.

On the afternoon of December 25, the Ministry of Justice held a national conference to review judicial work in 2023, evaluate work results up to mid-term; orient judicial work tasks until the end of the term and main tasks and solutions for work in 2024.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang attended and directed the conference; Minister of Justice Le Thanh Long chaired the conference. At the Nghe An province bridge, comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired.

The Ministry of Justice held a national conference to deploy judicial work in 2024. Photo: PLVN Newspaper

ENSURE PROGRESS AND QUALITY OF TASKS

In 2023, the Ministry of Justice has focused resources on timely implementation, ensuring progress and quality of the assigned tasks. Direction and management work continues to have many innovations and higher efficiency. The results of work in 2023 in most areas of the Ministry of Justice have increased compared to the same period in 2022, in which, there are a number of areas of work achieving outstanding results.

The work of building and perfecting institutions and laws has been paid attention to and focused on by ministries and branches, and has achieved many positive results. In 2023, the Ministry of Justice and ministries and branches have developed, submitted for promulgation or promulgated under their authority 515 legal documents, and since the beginning of the term, there have been 2,198 documents. Thereby, contributing to perfecting our country's legal system; promptly and fully institutionalizing the Party's policies and guidelines.

Overview of Nghe An province bridge. Photo: Pham Bang

The work of checking and reviewing legal documents was carried out promptly with a large volume of work, contributing to ensuring the consistency, publicity, transparency and feasibility of the legal system. The Ministry of Justice organized 10 interdisciplinary inspection teams to inspect the implementation of the law on handling administrative violations.

Communication and dissemination of policies, laws and mediation at the grassroots level have been effectively implemented. The electronic civil status database has been built and operated effectively, maintaining connection and seamless sharing with the National Population Database. Since the beginning of the term, ministries, branches and localities have organized 1,464,569 direct legal dissemination and education sessions for more than 100 million people.

The enforcement of civil judgments has achieved the highest results ever. The institution in the field of judicial support continues to be improved, meeting the requirements of preventing and combating corruption, negativity and State management. Since the beginning of the term, civil judgment enforcement agencies have completed 1,609,462 cases, with over VND 211,073 billion.

Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung presided at the Nghe An bridge. Photo: Pham Bang

Legal aid work has many impressive results, especially the establishment of a direct legal aid mechanism in criminal investigations nationwide, the number of cases of legal aid for litigation is the highest ever. International legal work and international cooperation have many important marks.

In addition to the achieved results, the quality of law-making and law enforcement is not high; the debt of issuing documents detailing effective laws and resolutions has not been thoroughly resolved; the effectiveness of State management of judicial support work has not been as expected; the number of cases of enforcement transferred to the next period is still high; the effectiveness of administrative enforcement has not achieved the desired results...

Leaders of departments, branches and units attended the conference. Photo: Pham Bang

At the conference, leaders of ministries, branches and localities focused on evaluating and discussing the results achieved, difficulties, limitations and causes in implementing tasks from the beginning of the term until now, proposing orientations for key tasks in 2024 and the entire term...

OVERCOME DIFFICULTIES, COMPLETE ASSIGNED TASKS WELL

Concluding the conference, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang emphasized that in 2023, our country faced many difficulties and challenges, but we have made efforts to overcome them and achieved many encouraging results. Among those achievements, we must mention the great and important contributions of the Judiciary sector.

Emphasizing that 2024 will have many difficulties, the Deputy Prime Minister said that there is not much time left, while the tasks of the Judiciary sector are still "in debt"; the working apparatus of the sector does not have a specific mechanism; the demands of the people are increasing...

Leaders of departments, branches and units attended the conference. Photo: Pham Bang

In the coming time, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang suggested that the Judicial sector should make more efforts, overcome difficulties and obstacles to continue performing important tasks: Institutional building must be timely and of high quality; propose amendments to the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents 2015, the Law and Ordinance Building Program for 2024 and 2025.

In addition, in the work of appraising proposals for construction, projects, and draft legal documents, it is necessary to promptly and accurately remove "bottlenecks"; continue to improve the quality of law enforcement; strengthen policy communication, dissemination, and legal education in many effective forms...

Leaders of departments, branches and units attended the conference. Photo: Pham Bang

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang also requested the Judicial sector to pay attention to the work of building the sector, helping the sector's officials feel secure in their work, maintain their faith in their work, and in the glorious tradition of the sector. In particular, leaders must be exemplary models of kindness for the sector's officials to learn from and follow.

On the other hand, the Judiciary needs to continue to coordinate with ministries, branches and localities to improve the quality of all aspects of work; strengthen administrative reform, digital transformation; improve the quality and efficiency of international legal work.

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