Legal News May 2017 in Viet Nam

Amendment and supplement to Decree detailing a number of Articles and implementation measures of the Law on Lawyers Draft Decree amending and supplementing a number of Articles of Decree No.123/2013/ND-CP detailing a number of Articles and implementation measures of the Law on Lawyers, has been developing by the Ministry of Justice with significant amendments on code of professional conducts and standards for a lawyer. Accordingly, the draft Decree adds provisions on ethics of lawyer: “Lawyer must be a person who has integrity, honesty, responsibility in professional activities to protect justice and fairness, must not do against laws and profession morality...