Legal system in Vietnam
Encyclopedia
Law of Vietnam is based on communist legal theory and French
civil law
. In 1981 major reforms were made to the judicial and legal system.
New laws introduced since:
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
civil law
Civil law (legal system)
Civil law is a legal system inspired by Roman law and whose primary feature is that laws are codified into collections, as compared to common law systems that gives great precedential weight to common law on the principle that it is unfair to treat similar facts differently on different...
. In 1981 major reforms were made to the judicial and legal system.
New laws introduced since:
- Penal Code 1912
See also
- Legal systems of the worldLegal systems of the worldThe legal systems of the world today are generally based on one of three basic systems: civil law, common law, and religious law – or combinations of these...
- Judiciary of VietnamJudiciary of VietnamAt the apex of the judiciary of Vietnam is the Supreme People’s Court of Vietnam , which is the highest court for appeal and review. The SPC reports to the National Assembly of Vietnam, which controls the judiciary’s budget and confirms the president’s nominees to the SPC and Supreme People’s...
- Supreme People’s Procuracy of Vietnam