The Inter-sectoral Coordination Council for Legal Aid in the province's legal proceedings has just inspected the coordination on legal aid in the proceedings in 2023 at the Provincial Police and other legal proceeding-conducting agencies. districts include: Vinh Cuu, Nhon Trach, Cam My, Tan Phu.
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| The inspection team of the Inter-sectoral Coordination Council on legal aid in the province's proceedings worked at the H.Nhon Trach Police. Photo: A.NHON |
The inter-sectoral delegation recognized the efforts of the prosecution agencies in the coordination of legal aid.
* More and more people get free legal aid
One of the units highly appreciated by the delegation was the H.Tan Phu Police. This is a unit in a remote area, but has paid attention and done a very good job of coordinating legal aid.
At the meeting with the inter-sectoral delegation on legal aid in the province's legal proceedings working at H.Tan Phu Police in July, 7, Senior Colonel Nguyen Xuan Truong, Deputy Head of the Investigation Police Department of Public Security Police H.H. .Tan Phu said that over the past time, the unit has actively implemented legal aid work, both ensuring legal requirements in investigation activities, and ensuring the rights for subjects receiving legal aid. The unit also promotes legal propaganda, dissemination and education in order to promptly protect the legal rights and interests of legal aid recipients, especially the poor, people with meritorious services to the revolution, and ethnic minorities. number…
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Those who are entitled to free legal aid include: people with meritorious services to the revolution, people from poor households, children, ethnic minorities residing in areas with extremely difficult socio-economic conditions, and people accused of crimes. from full 16 years old to under 18 years old, accused persons belonging to near-poor households, elderly people, people with disabilities, people infected with Agent Orange (with financial difficulties).
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In addition, the H.Tan Phu Police custody house has seriously posted the information board on legal aid and placed an information box on legal aid at the agency's headquarters. All cases of arrest, detention, defendants and victims are explained about free legal aid activities, instructions on how to access information about legal aid and register for legal aid when they are eligible for legal aid. Particularly in the first 5 months of 2023, the unit requested legal aid for 17 cases under 18 years old.
Deputy Director of the Provincial Legal Aid Center Le Minh Tuan said that the coordination in the implementation of legal aid in legal proceedings has been actively and synchronously implemented by all levels and sectors. Awareness of the position and role of legal aid work in general and legal aid work in legal proceedings in particular has been raised markedly.
In addition, the Department of Justice, the standing agency of the Legal Aid Coordination Council has actively directed the provincial State Legal Aid Center to appoint competent and qualified legal aid practitioners to participate in the legal proceedings in order to ensure legal aid protection. promptly protect the legitimate rights and interests of the subjects who are entitled to free legal aid. Agencies and persons conducting legal proceedings have explained their rights and obligations under the procedural law, the right to legal aid to those subject to legal aid and guided them or their relatives to the provincial State Legal Aid Center, its branch. center to request legal aid… As a result, the number of legal aid cases carried out by participating in legal proceedings is increasing.
“Up to now, legal aid activities for disadvantaged people have not only increased in number of cases but also in quality. The assistance of legal assistants participating in legal proceedings is constantly improved and better meets the requirements of the legal aid recipients” – Mr. Le Minh Tuan shared.
* Towards the benefit of the weak
Besides the achieved results, the coordination on legal aid still has shortcomings and limitations. For example, people's awareness about legal aid is not high, many people still do not believe in free legal aid activities. The job rotation for the team of investigators makes legal aid activities difficult. Some officials and civil servants carrying out legal proceedings do not fully understand the provisions of the 2017 Law on Legal Aid, so they are still limited in their coordination with the provincial State Legal Aid Center and its central branch...
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| Legal assistants of the Provincial State Legal Aid Center advise people on their right to free legal aid |
Faced with the above situation, Deputy Director of the Department of Justice Phan Quang Tuan (Vice Chairman of the Legal Aid Coordination Council) suggested that the agencies that are members of the council should perform a number of tasks well in the coming time. In which, the proceedings-conducting agencies strengthen the better implementation of regulations on coordination; intensifying intensive training courses in the police, People's Court, and People's Procuracy at district level; strictly implement the propaganda and explanation of the right to legal aid to the denounced person, the person proposed for prosecution, the person detained in case of emergency, the arrested person, the person held in custody, the accused, the defendant, victims and litigants in criminal cases and litigants in civil and administrative cases; well perform the introduction of subjects eligible for legal aid to the provincial State Legal Aid Center and its branches.
In addition, the court authorities need to closely coordinate with the Department of Justice in implementing legal aid at the People's Courts in the province; create favorable conditions for the assistants assigned to the People's Courts of the districts...
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The number of new legal aid cases handled in the first 6 months of 2023 was 247 cases (an increase of 67 cases compared to the same period in 2022). The number of legal aid cases completed in the first 6 months of 2023 was 178 cases (an increase of 41 cases compared to the same period in 2022).
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