Judicial agencies should speed up the implementation of the Politburo’sResolution No. 49 to make breakthroughs in judicial reforms,corresponding to the cause of national construction and defence.

State President Truong Tan Sang made the instruction at a workingsession with the Supreme People’s Court in Hanoi on August 30, as Headof the Central Steering Committee for Judicial Reform.

The State leader spoke highly of judicial reform results with unjustsentences decreasing and professional shortcomings being avoided.

The staff quality and infrastructure of courts had been continuouslyimproved while summarising judging and law-building experience sawhigher efficiency, making important contributions to completing legaldocuments, he said.

The implementation of judicialreform tasks had been intensified, especially increasing competence fordistrict-level courts and enhancing argument and interrogationprocedures at hearings and the apparatus of courts at all levels, headded.

However, the court sector should build anall-term judicial reform programme with specific objectives and tasks,President Sang noted.

He also urged an improvementin the morality and professional knowledge of judges and courtofficials, meeting increasing requirements of the judicial work.

Speaking at the working session, Chief Judge of the Supreme People’sCourt Truong Hoa Binh said although the country’s political security andsocial order and safety continue to be maintained, criminality had seensophisticated developments while civil disputes relating to trade,marriage and family and labour as well as administrative complaints weretending to increase.

Despite difficulties, the court sector had made every effort to fulfil all set targets and tasks in judgment, he said./.