The inspection team found that the court’s Party Committee had strictly followed Party resolutions and carried out a drastic, large-scale restructuring that compresses the court system from four tiers to three.
The reform reorganised 693 district-level people’s courts into 355 regional people’s courts, while 63 provincial-level courts were merged into 34 units. The team called it one of the largest-ever organisational reshuffles ever inside Viet Nam’s judicial apparatus.
At the same time, the court sector handled a heavy strategic advisory and institutional reform workload. It presented a major proposal to the Politburo to create a specialised court at the International Financial Centre (IFC) and is advancing three central-level projects. Since July 1, 2025, the sector has been drafting five laws, nine decrees and 12 joint circulars.
The team said efforts to upgrade and standardise the legal framework have accelerated. Work is underway on 13 resolutions of the Council of Judges, 12 circulars from the Chief Justice, one lead joint circular and 11 coordinated joint circulars, aiming for consistent enforcement across the country’s entire legal system.
Chairman Man urged the people’s court system to keep thoroughly grasping and effectively following the Party’s policies and guidelines on comprehensive national renewal and strategic breakthroughs for national development.
He also called for a comprehensive review of the three-tier court model using concrete metrics such as case backlogs, overdue cases, trial quality, resolution time and public satisfaction. He stressed the need to quantify the judiciary’s contribution to economic development through the handling of commercial disputes, bankruptcy cases, property rights protection and improvements to the investment climate.
Digital transformation, he said, must be tied directly to judicial work, with the ultimate goal of cutting processing times, boosting transparency and lifting adjudication quality, not simply deploying software.
Chief Justice Nguyen Van Quang affirmed that the Supreme People’s Court’s Party Committee would continue directing the judiciary to effectively follow the 14th National Party Congress’s resolution and key Politburo and Secretariat conclusions. The sector, he said, would keep improving adjudication quality, safeguarding justice and human rights, advancing judicial reform and contributing more actively to national development in the new era.
