Judicial Transparency In The Criminal Field In Some Countries And Experiences for Vietnam

Abstract

In many countries, Judicial Transparency in general and in the Criminal Justice in particular are the foundation of judicial activity and the demand of power control in the Criminal Justice. They are also methods of protecting human rights and justice in the case process. Nevertheless, each country has different ways and levels of judicial transparency which are suitable to its characteristics and conditions and establishes a mechanism to assess the transparency for controlling the judicial activities. In some countries, thus, their Judicial Transparency research shall be learned from Vietnam’s process of judicial reform. Our country is constantly contributing to the implementation of "Building and improving the law's system with synchronization, uniform, feasibility, publicity and transparency ..." and "Building a judicial system with transparency, robustness, democracy, strict and clear discipline, defending justice, gradually implementing the modernization process and serving Vietnamese and their fatherland; Judicial activity with a focus on judgement is conducted by the high efficiency and effectiveness”, this article shall discuss the judicial transparency in the field of criminal justice and address the experience of some countries such as England, the United States and the People's Republic of China on their judicial transparency in the field of criminal justice that Vietnam should learn from them.