Portal Site on JICA's Cooperation in Legal and Judicial Development Sector

Basic information on JICA's projects

• Cooperation in the Legal and Judicial Field
• Cooperation in the Legal and Judicial Field (Phase 2) (December 1999 to November 2002)
• Cooperation in the Legal and Judicial Field (Phase 3) (July 2003 to March 2007)
• Technical Assistance for the Legal and Judicial System Reform (April 2007 to March 2011)
• Technical Assistance for the Legal and Judicial System Reform (Phase 2) (April 2011 to March 2015)
• Project for Harmonized, Practical Legislation and Uniform Application of Law Targeting Year 2020 (April 2015 to December 2020)

Codes and Acts related to JICA's support

The " Codes and Acts related to JICA's support" and "Project deliverables" listed are published as reference materials of deliverables prepared by JICA's technical cooperation experts and persons involved in projects so that Japanese companies and individuals can understand the laws and regulations of Vietnam. For legal matters, refer to the original Vietnamese text of the laws and regulations. JICA and those who provided the translations do not guarantee the accuracy of the translations of the "Codes and Acts that JICA provided support" and "deliverables," and do not assume any liability for damages arising from the use of the Japanese translations by users.

Civil Code

Passed on June 14, 2005
Effective on January 1, 2006

• Japanese
• Vietnamese
• English

Code of Civil Procedure

June 15, 2004

• Japanese
• Vietnamese

Administrative Litigation Act

• Japanese
• Vietnamese

Code of Criminal Procedure

• Japanese
• English

Civil Judgment Enforcement Act

November 14, 2008

• Japanese
• English

Criminal Investigation Organization Order of Vietnam

Established on August 20, 2004

• Japanese

National Liability Act

Effective in January 2010

• Japanese
• English

Project deliverables

The "Codes and Acts that JICA provided support for" and "deliverables" listed are published as reference materials of deliverables prepared by JICA technical cooperation experts and persons involved in projects so that Japanese companies and individuals can understand the laws and regulations of Vietnam. For legal matters, refer to the original Vietnamese text of the laws and regulations. JICA and those who provided the translations do not guarantee the accuracy of the translations of the "Codes and Acts that JICA provided support" and "deliverables," and do not assume any liability for damages arising from the use of the Japanese translations by users.

Vietnamese laws

Edited by the Legal and Judicial Development Project in Vietnam.

• Vietnamese laws (Japanese)

Guidebook for Lawyers created by the Federation of Bar Associations of Vietnam (2017)

• Overall Table of Contents (PDF)
• Provisional translation for a part of Volume 1 (PDF)
• Provisional translation for a part of Volume 2 (PDF)
• Provisional translation for a part of Volume 3 (PDF)

Vietnam National Judicial Academy (JA) Textbook "Civil Code"

• Vietnamese

Vietnam National Judicial Academy (JA) Textbook "Code of Civil Procedure" [Instruction]

• Vietnamese

Vietnam National Judicial Academy (JA) Textbook "Civil Case Resolution Skills"

• Vietnamese

Vietnam National Judicial Academy (JA) Textbook "Criminal Case Resolution Skills"

• Vietnamese

Vietnam National Judicial Academy (JA) Legal Profession Training Manual

• Vietnamese

Criminal Prosecutor's Manual, Volume 1 (Investigation and First Instance)

Distributed to prosecutors all over the country and used as reference materials in their duties.

• Japanese

Criminal Prosecutor's Manual, Volume 2 (Execution of Appeals, Supervision, Retrial, Criminal Judgment, Supervision of Rehabilitation)

September 21, 2010

Distributed to and used by 9,000 prosecutors, including district prosecutors.

• Japanese (PDF/1.05MB)
• Vietnamese (PDF/1.50MB)

Judgment Document Manual, for documents to be submitted to the Vietnamese People's Supreme Court (2009)

• Japanese (PDF/909KB)
• English (PDF/693KB)
• Vietnamese

VNU (Vietnam National University, Hanoi) Textbook "Japanese legal terms"

Japan - Vietnam joint study on the development of legal cases in Vietnam

• VNU (Vietnam National University, Hanoi) Textbook "Japanese legal terms" (Japanese)

Japan - Vietnam joint study on the development of legal cases in Vietnam

Related information

View of JICA Joint Study Group on Civil Code concerning the draft for the revision of the Civil Code of Vietnam in 2015

September 2015

• Japanese (PDF/394KB)

View of JICA Joint Study Group on Civil Code concerning the draft for the revision of the Civil Code of Vietnam in 2015 (Executive summary)

September 2015

• Japanese (PDF/200KB)