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After the Lao Issara government was deposed by the French and the monarchy restored in 1946, the restored royal government (with the support of France) adopted a new French-written monarchical constitution, promulgated on May 11, 1947 and declared it to be an independent state within the French Union. The revised constitution of May 11, 1957 ...
The Laotian legal system is not determined by a democratic parliament or by legal precedent, but by the arbitrary rule of Laos's single party. The main source of law is legislation. There are two types of legislation: legislation of general application and legislation of specific application. [1]
The text of the Constitution was one of the legally binding sources of constitutional law in the Kingdom. The Constitution defined Laos as "a unitary, indivisible and democratic kingdom". [1] It defined the Lao language the language of the state and made Buddhism the state religion. [2] The Constitution was composed of seven sections and 44 ...
The People's Supreme Court of the Lao People's Democratic Republic is the highest body of judicial power in Laos. [1] It was established in 1982. [2] As outlined in Article 92 of Constitution, the People's Supreme Court of the Lao People's Democratic Republic is the highest judicial body and "examines the judgments and judgments of the people's courts and military courts".
The last elections were held on 21 February 2021. The Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) took 158 seats in the enlarged 164-member National Assembly while the six remaining seats went to independents. [4] In 2017, construction started on a new National Assembly building, gifted by Vietnam. [5] The construction was completed in 2021. [6]
The Ministry of Justice of Laos existed as far back as the Royal Lao Government (1940s). [1] It was not until the first Laos government in 1975 that the ministry took a more active role in the creation and operation of the judiciary, court system, and the rights and freedoms of Laotian citizens. [2]
The politics of the Lao People's Democratic Republic (commonly known as Laos) takes place in the framework of a one-party parliamentary socialist republic. [1] The only legal political party is the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP). [ 2 ]
Abortion in Laos was on the whole illegal before 2021, when the law was changed to allow the termination of pregnancy in certain circumstances. [1]Under the new legislation, abortion is permitted in the cases of: [2]