About 100 lawyers and jurists will provide free legal advice to thoselodging complaints or denunciations with the Central Citizen ReceptionCommittee’s Office in Hanoi.

The announcementwas made at a workshop between the Central Committee of the VietnamFatherland Front (VFF), the Government Inspectorate of Vietnam (GIV),the Vietnam Bar Federation (VBF) and the Vietnamese Lawyers Association(VLA) on July 1 in Hanoi.

In his openingremarks, Vice President of the VFF Central Committee Nguyen Van Pha saidthe VFF has been working with the Ministry of Justice, GIV, VBF and VLAto offer supervision in multiple fields and improve the settlement ofcitizen complaints and denunciations at the local level.

Lack of legal knowledge is among the key contributing factors to thelengthy and complicated state of complaints and denunciations in thecountry, Pha noted.

Therefore, the programme isintended to give citizens free legal advice at the Central CitizenReception Committee’s Office, he explained, adding that Hanoi will bethe first municipality to conduct the programme before it is undertakenacross the country. Citizens can also seek advice from the VLA.

Nguyen Hong Diep, Head of the Central Division for Reception ofCitizens under the Government Inspectorate, urged the active engagementof attending lawyers and requested the presence of these lawyers at theregular receptions of citizens of the Inspector-General and theMinister-Chairman of the Office of the Government.-VNA