CHARACTERISTICS OF OFFERING-EVIDENCE PRACTICE OF LAWYERS IN VIETNAM’S CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

Abstract

Offering-evidence is the most important and fundamental activity carried out during the criminal procedure with the participation of many different litigants to determine the objective truth of the case. This practice of the case’s subjects that perform the basic functions of the criminal procedure such as accused, defense, and trial subjects have different roles, positions and characteristics. Offering-evidence practices of lawyers in the criminal procedure are to perform the defense and protection for the accused. The article analyzes a number of characteristics of the lawyers' offering-evidence practice in the criminal procedure, thus, to set out some issues that need to overcome in order to improve the defense effectiveness and contribute in clarifying the objective truth of the case.

Keywords: lawyers, offering-evidence practice, criminal procedure, defense