Vietnam, US share experience in criminal law enforcement
Law experts of Vietnam and the US are taking part in a seminar that opened in Hanoi on October 3 to gain an insight into each country’s criminal laws and judicial procedures and share experience in law enforcement.
US acting vice ambassador to Vietnam Brett Blackshaw speaks at the seminar on October 3 (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) –Law experts of Vietnam and the US are taking part in a seminar that opened inHanoi on October 3 to gain an insight into each country’s criminal laws andjudicial procedures and share experience in law enforcement.
Trinh Xuan Toan, head of the Office of Vietnam’sCentral Steering Committee for Judicial Reform, said the two-day seminar is thefirst of its kind on criminal laws and judicial procedures between Vietnam andthe US. It is part of activities to implement the two countries’ cooperation inhuman rights and judicial reforms promotion, and law enforcement and criminaljustice support, agreed during a visit to Vietnam by then US President BarackObama in May 2016.
He stressed that judicial reform is one of thecritical tasks in the building of a socialist law-governed State of the people,by the people and for the people. Since a judicial reform strategy was issuedover 10 years ago, Vietnam has amended and issued a number of legal documentson the apparatus of agencies with judicial activities. It has also revisedpolicies on the training, selection and appointment of judicial officials.
Judicial activities have had better quality andapproached the targets of protecting justice, human rights and the rights andlegitimate interests of agencies, organisations and individuals, he added.
Brett Blackshaw, US acting vice ambassador toVietnam, welcomed Vietnam’s efforts in law system perfection and judicial reformsto better ensure the fundamental rights and freedoms for all people in linewith the 2013 Constitution.
The US government pledges to provide maximalassistance for Vietnam in judicial reforms so as to enhance the two countries’relations, he noted.
At the two-day seminar, the Office of theCentral Steering Committee for Judicial Reform will give an overview ofVietnam’s criminal justice system and new revisions to the Penal Code, theCriminal Procedure Code and relevant legal documents. US experts will talkabout ensuring equality among parties during trials at US courts, operations ofinvestigation and prosecution agencies, and the apparatus and operations ofagencies with legal aid activities, among others.
Participants are set to discuss issues of sharedconcern, including Vietnam’s criminal laws and judicial procedures and the US’sexperience in criminal justice. They will also suggest solutions to increasethe quality of criminal justice law enforcement in Vietnam.-VNA
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US acting vice ambassador to Vietnam Brett Blackshaw speaks at the seminar on October 3 (Photo: VNA) 
