Outcome

Public awareness promoted and knowledge about and access to legal and judicial information enhanced

Strategy

1. Publish existing laws, all subsidiary legislation, including guidelines and common practices in Khmer, establish the comprehensive, timely, official publication of all new laws and subsidiary legislation, e.g. official gazette, and ensure the availability of any legislative enactment to judges, lawyers, law students, government officials, the private sector, civil society and any other interested party.

2. Publish existing judgments and establish a case law digest for the printing and dissemination of verdicts, decisions and rulings of the courts and ensure that court judgments are available upon request.

3. Promote provision of relevant information and guidance to the public and users of as well the courts as administrative bodies by the respective institutions.

4. Ensure that the professional role players of the courts have adequate access to the laws of the country, the body of international law, professional literature and precedence.

Priority

3.1.3 Provision of the regular and institutionalised publication of a comprehensive law gazette and a legal information database.

3.2.2 Collection and printing of existing material on judicial decisions.

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Priority

3.1.2 Provision of a trilingual lexicon

3.3.2 Reception desk and information functions in the courts.

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Priority

3.1.1 Law on access to information and policy on dissemination of information in relation to the justice sector, including examining ways to disseminate targeting all parts of the society

3.2.1 Establishment of a periodic legal digest published through a board of independent experts

3.2.3 Legislative provisions on access to court decisions, including through the court information desks

3.3.1 Policy on dissemination of information within the administration

3.4.1 Establish a library and reference system for the courts, including systems to ensure regular update

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