The Ministry of Justice recommended changing or removing 143administrative procedures over the last three months, chief secretariatand spokesman of the ministry Tran Tien Dung said at a recent pressconference.
He said unqualified administrativeprocedures made up more than 76 percent of those submitted to theministry for assessment.
The ministry also examined864 legal documents during the period, including 165 documents fromministries and ministry-line agencies, and 699 from localities. It foundthat 62 of the 864 legal documents violated content regulations.
The ministry received 530,900 cases on the enforcement of the CivilCode from October 2014 to March 2015 – 3.34 percent more than the sameperiod last year. Of those, they solved more than 214,000 cases. Theamount solved increased 1.78 percent over last year.
The ministry spokesman said the ministry expects to submit drafts ofthe revised Civil Code, revised Penal Code, Law on Auction and Law onAdministrative Decisions.
He said the ministryproposes limiting the scope of capital punishment, reducing chargessubject to prison sentences and expanding the application ofnon-custodial reforms.
The public has shown concernover the proposal, as some charges requiring a death sentence would bechanged to life in prison – corruption, for example.
Nguyen Van Dung, deputy director of the ministry's Department ofCriminal and Administrative Law, said reducing capital punishment is atrend in the legal reform process.-VNA
