Enthusiastic and responsible legal assistant

Legal Aid Center Hoang Duc Hieu provides legal advice to people at Branch No. 4, Thanh Hoa Province State Legal Aid Center. Photo: Viet Huong

Talking about his career destiny, TGVPL Hoang Duc Hieu recalled that since he was a child, he always wanted to become a lawyer to contribute to protecting justice and protecting the right. That motivation urged him to study and pass the entrance exam to the Faculty of Economic Law, Hanoi Law University. After graduating from university, faced with many career choices, he chose to stick with TGPL work - an activity that involves dealing with many cases, many difficult circumstances, and disadvantaged people in society.

According to TGVPL Hoang Duc Hieu, TGPL is a special profession, providing free legal services to the poor, policy beneficiaries who are eligible for TGPL according to the provisions of law. TGPL practitioners have the duty to best protect the rights and legitimate interests of people receiving TGPL, thereby contributing to ensuring human rights and civil rights in access to justice and equality before the law.

To do that, in addition to learning and improving legal knowledge, professional skills, and complying with the principles of legal aid operations, legal aid practitioners must be honest, upright, respect objective truth, maintain political will, moral qualities, ensure independence, and not let their own interests, the interests of other individuals, agencies, and organizations affect the implementation of legal aid cases. With more than 10 years of working in legal aid, legal aid practitioner Hoang Duc Hieu has directly carried out about 300 litigation cases, 10 non-litigation representation cases, and hundreds of legal advice contents. The cases he participated in were all assessed as being of fair and good quality, of which good quality cases accounted for about 95%.

Sharing about his professional activities, Legal Aid Officer Hoang Duc Hieu shared: “The special subjects that legal aid officers like us often come into contact with are the poor, people with revolutionary contributions, lonely elderly people, people with disabilities, children, minors, ethnic minorities... In the process of providing legal advice and assisting them in specific cases, legal aid officers must be truly enthusiastic, dedicated, persistent, professional, keep information confidential, and create trust with them. What we receive in return are smiles, sometimes even tears of happiness from them when their rights are protected in these cases.”

Working with legal aid, legal aid officer Hoang Duc Hieu has had the opportunity to travel to many places and meet many people, especially in the mountainous areas of the province. In addition to participating in litigation activities, legal aid officer Hoang Duc Hieu is also assigned by the Provincial State Legal Aid Center to monitor the activities of legal aid clubs; compile columns, monitor the broadcasting of legal aid columns on the local loudspeaker system; coordinate with the Department of Justice and the People's Committees of communes in the district assigned to carry out mobile legal aid campaigns, communicate legal aid, and directly advise people with legal problems. At the same time, he regularly coordinates with the Department of Ethnic Minorities and mass organizations to organize legal propaganda on topics in communes and villages with special difficulties in the districts in charge.

Mr. Hieu recalls: “Many mobile communication sessions in especially difficult villages and hamlets had to be organized in the evening, when people had finished their work before they came to participate. There were places where we had to walk for hours to get to the venue, and when the working group arrived at the village, our clothes, shoes, and documents were covered in mud due to sudden rain. During such communication sessions in especially difficult villages and hamlets, the biggest concern of TGVPL was how to exchange, advise, and explain so that people in difficult places with low educational levels could know and understand the law to respect the law and be able to protect their legitimate rights.”

With his tireless efforts during his work, over the years, Legal Aid Officer Hoang Duc Hieu has always been evaluated as having completed his assigned tasks well and excellently, and has been awarded a Certificate of Merit by the Director of the Department of Justice for many years. In 2024, he was honored to be one of the individuals in the judicial sector to receive a Certificate of Merit from the Chairman of the Thanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee for his outstanding achievements in legal aid work. Those encouragements and motivations are the "catalysts" for him to continue to be committed, dedicated, and steadfast on the journey of being attached to legal aid activities.

Viet Huong

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