Myanmar: Legal education

Myanmar: Legal education

The availability and provision of quality legal education and continuing education is essential to ensuring that legal professionals are competent and able to play their essential role in  contributing to ensuring respect for the rule of law, the protection and...
Myanmar: Legal education

Myanmar

Myanmar has thus far failed to ratify most human rights treaties. Judicial independence is provided for in law, but not respected in practice. In particular, the degree of control exercised by the Executive over the appointment process and the lack of transparency...
Myanmar: Legal education

Myanmar: Accountability of the prosecutorial services

Like all members of the legal profession, Prosecutors must carry out their roles with integrity and in accordance with the law and in a manner that is consistent with human rights and established standards of prosecutorial conduct. And like other legal professionals...
Myanmar: Legal education

Myanmar: Integrity and accountability of the legal profession

As with judges, a code of professional conduct for lawyers is an essential tool for the maintenance of the integrity of the profession and, consequently, the quality of access to justice in a country. The UN Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers state that “codes of...
Myanmar: Legal education

Myanmar: International treaty status

The following table sets out the status of a range of international treaties in Myanmar as of 15 June 2014. [table] ,Ratification accession or succession International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,No signature or ratification Optional Protocol to the...
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