Chapter VI
STATE MANAGEMENT OVER LAWYERS� ORGANIZATIONS AND PRACTICE OF LAWYER�S PROFESSION
Article 37.- Contents of the State management over lawyers’ organizations and practice of lawyer’s profession
1. To work out strategies and policies on the development of lawyer’s profession in Vietnam.
2. To promulgate and guide the implementation of, legal documents on lawyers’ organizations and practice of lawyer’s profession.
3. To organize and guide the professional training and fostering for lawyers.
4. To grant certificates of lawyer’s professional practice.
5. To grant the operation registration papers for lawyer’ s profession- practicing organizations.
6. To permit the setting up and dissolution of socio-professional organizations of lawyers.
7. To examine, inspect and settle complaints and denunciations and handle violations of legislation on lawyers’ organizations and practice of lawyer’s profession.
8. To suspend the implementation and request amendment of bar associations’ regulations, decisions and resolutions, which run counter to the provisions of legislation on lawyers’ organizations and the practice of lawyer’s profession.
9. To apply measures in support of the development of lawyer’s profession.
10. To perform the State management over activities of international cooperation on lawyers.
Article 38.- The State management bodies
1. The Government performs the unified State management over lawyers’ organizations and the practice of lawyer’s profession.
2. The Ministry of Justice is responsible before the Government for the performance of State management over the lawyers’ organizations and the practice of lawyer’s profession.
3. The Ministry of Justice shall coordinate with the ministries, the ministerial-level agencies and the agencies attached to the Government in exercising the State management over the lawyers’ organizations and the practice of lawyer’s profession according to the provisions of law.
4. The People’s Committees of the provinces and centrally- run cities shall, within the scope of their tasks and powers, perform the State management over the lawyers’ organizations and the practice of lawyer’s profession in their localities.