On April 26, continuing the 44th session, the National Assembly Standing Committee gave opinions on the draft Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Organization of the People's Court.
Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court Nguyen Van Tien said that 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.
Establish regional courts; convert specialized first instance courts into specialized courts in regional courts.
Accordingly, the model of organizing the court system includes the Supreme People's Court; Provincial and Municipal Courts; Regional Courts.
Based on the model of organizing a 3-level court system, the Supreme People's Court is proposed to add tasks and authority to review criminal cases whose judgments and decisions do not have legal effect and the provincial People's Court is being appealed and appealed.
Supplementing the regulations in the organizational structure of the Supreme People's Court, there are Supreme Court of Appeal and assigned the National Assembly Standing Committee to prescribe the scope of the territory of the Supreme Court of Appeals at the request of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
The draft law proposes to increase the number of Supreme People's Court judges from 13 to 17 to 23 to 27.
This is to ensure sufficient human resources to promptly and qualitatively resolve the additional workload of appraisal and re-apraisal directors transferred from the High People's Court to meet the targets and requirements of the National Assembly.
For the provincial court, the task of appealing the judgment and the first instance decision of the People's Court of the area where the law has not yet come into effect will be assigned to appeal and appeal.
The Director of appraisal and re-approvement of the judgment and decision of the People's Court of the region that has come into legal effect is appealed (this task is received from the High People's Court).
With regional courts organized on the basis of restructuring the People's Courts of districts, towns and cities under provinces and cities.
The People's Court of the area for first instance trial of criminal cases shall comply with the provisions of law; first instance trial of all civil and administrative cases and incidents and resolve other matters under the authority of the court (increasing authority compared to the current district-level People's Court).
Reviewing this content, Chairman of the National Assembly's Committee on Law and Justice Hoang Thanh Tung said that the Committee proposed to carefully consider the proposal to increase the number of members of the Supreme People's Court's Judicial Council by no less than 23 people and no more than 27 people.
Some opinions agreed with the proposal to increase the number of Supreme People's Court judges for the reasons stated in the submission.
In addition, the Supreme People's Court judge is an officer under the management of the Secretariat. Increasing the number of Supreme People's Court judges is an important issue, related to the Party's policy, so it is recommended that the Supreme People's Court seek opinions from competent authorities according to regulations.
Explaining further, Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court Le Minh Tri said that if the number of 17 judges of the Supreme People's Court is "not strong enough to work".
The increase in the number of judges has been approved by the Politburo and the Party Central Committee. This is also to solve practical problems, not to worry about appointed people without experience - Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court Le Minh Tri emphasized.
Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Nguyen Khac Dinh said that the National Assembly Standing Committee supports the proposal to increase the number of Supreme People's Court judges, expand the subjects to select appointment as judges of the Supreme People's Court.
Mr. Nguyen Khac Dinh suggested that the Supreme People's Court coordinate with agencies to complete the dossier to submit to the National Assembly at the upcoming 9th Session.
