On March 15th, 2019, the Ministry of Justice issued Circular No. 02/2019/TT-BTP stipulating the obligation to participate in compulsory training of lawyers. The circular takes effect from May 5th, 2019
Accordingly, Circular No. 02/2019/TT-BTP provides many new regulations that stand out from Circular 10/2014/TT-BTP as follows:
– Reducing the time to participate in professional training of lawyers at least 8 hours / year (instead of the current regulation of 16 hours / year).
– New regulations on the time for redemption to participate in training in that year (this point has not been stipulated in Circular 10/2014 / TT-BTP). Specifically the following cases:
– Writing legal research papers published in domestic and foreign law specialized journals; …
– Participate in teaching law, law practice skills, ethics and professional law practice at law bachelor training institutions, law training institutions;
– Participate and complete the judicial title training program;
– Participate in and complete professional training courses, lawyers on lawyers and law practice abroad;
– Participate in training programs, seminars, seminars from 1 day or more on the contents specified in Article 3 of Circular 02/2019 organized by the Department of Justice, Department of Justice Assistance and supplementation.
(01 time of participation and completion is estimated by 08 hours of performing the training obligation)
Thus, Circular 02/2019/TT-BTP has been issued to create an open mechanism for training methods to improve skills and allow the conversion of time to participate in compulsory professional training. Service of Lawyers. This provision has both ensured the improvement of professional knowledge of lawyers and is also consistent with the actual situation of lawyers in practice.