On October 26th, ILSTA held a lecture on Wildlife Crime attended by over 150 participants from the Faculty of Law and Political Science, National University of Laos, as well as online participants from the Faculty of Law and Administration (FLA) Champasak, National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Champasak, Savannakhet and Luang Prabang, and legal practitioners from […]
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Consultation on Amending Lao State Audit Law
Government representatives from 4 northern provinces discussed amendments to the State Audit Law in a workshop chaired by the Lao State Audit Organisation and ILSTA in Oudomxay Province on August 17-19, 2022. ILSTA expert, Mr Daniel Schweitzer, presented on International Standards in Auditing which was followed by a lively Q&A session. Participants debated amendments on […]
Lao Prosecutors trained in Wildlife Crime Prevention and Prosecution
The Office of the Supreme People’s Prosecutor and ILSTA delivered an eight-day course on building the capacity of the southern prosecutors in wildlife crime prevention and prosecution in Savannakhet Province, Lao PDR, from the 23rd August – 1st September, 2022. In total, 30 participants from the prosecutor’s office in Savanakhet, Khammoune, Bolikhamxay, Attapeu, Champasak, Sekong […]
Ethics and Integrity Summer School
Promoting a culture of lawfulness starts with strengthening our own ethical values. Twenty-eight students from the National University of Laos completed this first Ethics and Integrity Summer School from 15 – 26 August 2022 at ILSTA’s training facility in Vientiane. Planned for 2020, but delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Summer School implemented an initiative […]
Workshop for Assistant Judges
ILSTA, in cooperation with ສານປະຊາຊົນສູງສຸດແຫ່ງ ສປປ ລາວ The People’s Supreme Court Lao PDR, is supporting training for 90 assistant judges from all 17 provinces of Laos at the Supreme Court’s Institute for Research and Training in Vientiane. The workshop was opened by the Vice President of PSC, Mr. Khampha Sengdara and Mr. Richard Philippart, President […]
Legal professionals benefit from ILSTA’s specialised English for law training
Lao law professionals are honing their legal English skills thanks to a specialised multi-level law curriculum being delivered by the Institute for Legal Support and Technical Assistance. The ILSTA English for Law Programme was launched in June 2016 starting with the training of 40 prosecutors from the Office of the Supreme People’s Prosecutor (OSPP). With […]
Nationwide anti-corruption training concludes in Vientiane
A series of training sessions on combating corruption jointly initiated by the State Inspection Authority (SIA) and ILSTA concluded today with a final workshop in Vientiane for inspection officials from five central provinces. In total, three workshops on prevention, anti-corruption and international best practices have been organised respectively in Luang Prabang for northern provinces, in Champasak […]