President To Lam addressing the meeting. Photo: VOV

The President chaired a meeting on Wednesday to evaluate the committee’s performance and map out major orientations and tasks. He said that together with the Fourth Industrial Revolution, many new, complex and unprecedented problems will arise in civil relations as well as administrative, commercial, labor and security and order areas, and the requirements of the people and society regarding judicial agencies and judicial activities will also increase.

“In today's meeting, members of the Steering Committee agreed to report to the Politburo on the need to maintain the organization and operation of the Steering Committee to help the Politburo lead and direct effective implementation of judicial reform tasks in line with the Party's guidelines, especially the judicial reform tasks and solutions stated in Resolution 27," he said. 

President To Lam chairs the meeting of the Central Steering Committee for Judicial Reform. Photo: VOV

The President emphasized the major task of developing a socialist-oriented market economy, building and fine-tuning the Vietnamese socialist rule-of-law State, and deepening international integration.

He applauded the Steering Committee during its terms for directing the improvement of policies, criminal and civil laws, and judicial proceedings; institutionalizing policies and guidelines on judicial reform in major judicial laws, such as Penal Code, Criminal Procedure Code, Civil Code, Law on Temporary Detention, Law on Execution of Criminal Judgments, Law on Amnesty, Law on Notarization, and Law on Lawyers.