IBA denies political influence claims
The Cambodian Bar Association has refuted a scathing critique of its independence and ethics by the International Bar Association (IBA) that questioned Cambodia’s membership in the global group, calling the assessment an unfounded “insult.”Following a visit to the country by a team of legal experts, ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/bar-association-denies-political-influence-claims-95607/
Group finds judiciary wracked with corruption
The human rights wing of the International Bar Association has found Cambodia’s judiciary is riddled with problems that corrode citizens’ rights to a fair trial, including widespread graft. ...
Pav Suy and James Reddick
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15863/group-finds-judiciary-wracked-with-corruption/
Former bar president back on top
Twelve years after being ousted as president of the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC) amid a bitter dispute with the prime minister’s attorney, human rights lawyer Suon Visal has been voted back into the lawyer association’s top position. ...
Kim Sarom
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/former-bar-president-back-top
Legal group urges review of Cambodia’s bar
The human rights arm of the International Bar Association (IBA) is recommending that the membership of the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC) in the IBA be reviewed, raising the prospect of ejection in a scathing new report on the country’s judicial system. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/legal-group-urges-review-of-cambodias-bar-94684/
NagaWorld’s dispute meetings in stalemate after ninth round talks
The ninth meeting between NagaWorld and worker representatives has ended in a stalemate, with both sides failing to reach a compromise, according to the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training. ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/nagaworlds-dispute-meetings-stalemate-after-ninth-round-talks
BarCamp Battambang empowers youth and entrepreneurs through digital innovation
BarCamp Battambang 2024’s ‘Digital Technology and New Business Conference’ will be held on October 25 to 26, 2024, aiming to understand the digital technology and content strategies that benefit young people and new business owners to study and implement digital technology. ...
Kuch Sikol
https://kiripost.com/stories/barcamp-battambang-empowers-youth-and-entrepreneurs-through-digital-innovation
BAKC defends more than 4,000 court cases
Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC) president Ly Chantola on Saturday said that the association’s lawyers have defended 4,038 cases representing 6,692 people so far this year. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50953416/bakc-defends-more-than-4000-court-cases/
Innovation and inspiration are the basis of BarCamp
BarCamp Phnom Penh, a technology conference at the University of Puthisastra, promises to attract industry professionals from ASEAN countries, the US, Germany and other countries around the world later this month, Be Chantra, lead organiser of the conference, says. Be Chantra says BarCamp Phnom Penh is ...
Call for all lawyers to provide free services to the poor
The Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC) has issued a letter calling on all lawyers to volunteer free legal services to the poor. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50811786/call-for-all-lawyers-to-provide-free-services-to-the-poor/
Courts ‘must solve’ corruption conundrum
Cambodia’s judicial system is troubled by a cycle of corruption, with both sides of the bench accusing the other of perpetuating the practice of bribery, Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) Chairman Om Yentieng said on Thursday at the inauguration of the new bar association president. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/courts-must-solve-corruption-conundrum-123755/
Bar association accuses rights monitor of legal interference
The Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia on Tuesday wrote to local rights group Adhoc accusing its head of monitoring, Ny Chakrya, of flouting legal practice by ordering the NGO’s lawyers to hand over for examination all documents relating to cases they defend. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/bar-association-accuses-rights-monitor-of-legal-interference-89831/
Bar association builds room for lawyer, client consultation
The Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC) has set up a legal office in all 25 municipal-provincial prisons to make it easier to maintain confidentiality between lawyers and clients in preparation for court proceedings. ...
Kim Sarom
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bar-association-builds-room-lawyer-client-consultation
Bar Association plans expansion of free services in 2022
Over the past year, the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC) has provided legal services to the poor in over 6,000 cases and their volunteer lawyers plan to continue expanding their free legal services to the poor to ensure Cambodians’ rights to equal ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bar-association-plans-expansion-free-services-2022
Lawyer-inmate rooms at prisons in heavy use
Lawyers are expressing satisfaction with improved conditions for legal consultations with incarcerated clients at prisons and correctional centres across the country, thanks to the 26 recently constructed lawyer-inmate meeting rooms at those facilities. ...
Post staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/lawyer-inmate-rooms-prisons-heavy-use
Overarching problems hinder search for justice for abused women: BAKC
Despite the implementation of provisions to defend abused women and girls in 2021, the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC) noted some challenges due to the lack of cooperation by relevant specialised state institutions. ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/overarching-problems-hinder-search-justice-abused-women-bakc
Legal aid budget to rise by half
The government is to give the Bar Association a 50 percent boost in the legal aid budget by 2018 to pay lawyers who defend the poor for free. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5080576/legal-aid-budget-rise-half/
Thai law firm says IP the main focus
A Bangkok-based regional law firm says it will expand to Cambodia in the coming weeks, despite the local bar association’s renewed drive to clamp down on foreign lawyers practising “illegally” in the country. Law firm Tilleke & Gibbins said it expected to enter the legal scene ...
Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/thai-law-firm-says-ip-main-focus
Adhoc tells bar request for case files ordinary
Rights group Adhoc has hit back at accusations from the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia that it interferes in judicial proceedings involving its lawyers, saying that the group had merely requested that a backlog of case files be moved from the home of ...
Matt Blomberg and Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/adhoc-tells-bar-request-for-case-files-ordinary-90384/
New Bar Association policy to provide pro bono legal aid
The Bar Association has introduced a new policy by calling on its members to defend the poor and to provide advice, counselling and legal services voluntarily to the public at each lawyer’s office free of charge. ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50808340/new-bar-association-policy-to-provide-pro-bono-legal-aid/
Over 2,000 receive free legal aid
The Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC) announced that over a period of 100 days they had provided free legal representation in 2,167 cases on behalf of poor people. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/over-2000-receive-free-legal-aid