Court organization system when removing high-level courts and district-level courts

At the 9th Session of the 15th National Assembly, the National Assembly will discuss the Draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Organization of the People's Court.

The Supreme People's Court has submitted a Report on the Draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Organization of the People's Court.

Accordingly, the Draft Law amends and supplements regulations on the organization of the Court system in the direction of not organizing High-level People's Courts and District People's Courts; establishing Regional People's Courts; converting specialized First instance People's Courts into specialized Courts in the Regional People's Courts.

Accordingly, the model of organizing the Court system includes: Supreme People's Court; Provincial and centrally-run City People's Courts; Regional People's Courts (amended Article 4 of the Law on Organization of the People's Court in 2024). Military Courts are maintained according to the current Law.

The draft Law also states the authority to establish and dissolve provincial People's Courts, regional People's Courts and Military Courts.

Accordingly, the Standing Committee of the National Assembly decided to establish and dissolve the provincial People's Court and the regional People's Court; regulations on scope of competence by territory of the regional People's Court at the request of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court;

The Standing Committee of the National Assembly decided to establish, dissolve and stipulate the scope of its territorial authority of the Military Region Military Court and the equivalent, the regional military court at the proposal of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court after reaching agreement with the Minister of Defense.

In the contents of the contents related to the Law on Amending and Supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Organization of the People's Court, the National Assembly's Legal and Judicial Committee expressed its approval of the draft law stipulating the system of the People's Court of Supreme Court, provincial -level People's Courts and regional People's Courts. (Military courts are kept in accordance with the current law). End of activities of high -level People's Courts and district People's Courts.

Regarding the competence of establishing, dissolving, providing for the scope of the territorial authority of the regional People's Court, the Legal and Judicial Committee said that most of the opinions approved the draft law and realized that the People's Court is the judicial trial, the exercise of judicial rights, has an important position and role in the state apparatus. This is also the basic content of inheritance of the current law.

A number of suggestions for this jurisdiction to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to suit the policy of promoting decentralization, decentralization and flexibility, in accordance with practical requirements, and also synchronously synchronized with the jurisdiction of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to allocate the payroll of the People's Court.

This issue needs to be considered and decided in sync with the authority to establish a regional People's Procuracy according to the draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Organization of People's Procuracies.