Dear Christine and Khmerization Readers:
I was saddened to read your account of yet another series of violations of citizen's rights in Cambodia. I lived in Phnom Penh, Cambodia for a year (1998-9) while seconded to the World Bank under a Technical Assistance contract, where we were tasked to review Cambodia's commercial laws and regulations, and to make recommendations as to how to improve them. Sadly, our small team of lawyers was unable to make much progress in eliminating the countless contradictions in the existing legal framework, as there were simply too many incongruous code law and common law templates adopted by the national government over the years. Accordingly, it was certainly the case 10 years ago -- and it is quite possibly still true today -- that Cambodia's legal framework is in a state of "relentless confusion."
Christopher A. Muessel
Singapore
muesselc@usa.net
1 comment:
Still true today. Many badly-drafted and contradictory laws have been adopted by the Cambodian parliament which have created more problems and solving th problems.
The problems in Cambodia is not the laws, most of the time it is the application of the or the lack of it which is the real problems.
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