PERSONAL DATA 

Name                               :        Oum Bunthoeun

Sex                                   :        Male

Date of Birth                    :        Aprilt 1^st, 1957

Nationality                       :        Cambodian

Foreign Languages         :        English French ,Thai

ACADEMIC HISTORY

• Master Degree of Law            
• Bachelor Degree of Faculty of Law and Science and Economic. 
• Member of Bar Association Certificate 
• Year 5 of Faculty of Medicine

OTHER TRAINING

Law

• Supreme Certificate of Law 
• Certificate of Participation issued by McCABE CENTER FOR LAW & CANCER Melbourne, Australia.
• Supreme Certificate of Law    
• Member of Bar Association Certificate
• Certificate of Defender Training issued by UNTAC
• Certificate of Human Rights Information Program
• Certificate of Criminal Justice issued by COERR
• Certificate of Criminal Justice and Investigating Section issued by CDP.
• Certificate of Law and Economic and Management issued by FUNCIPEC

Health

• Diploma of Physician Assistant issued by UNBRO and FUNCIPEC
• Certificate of Nurse issued by KHTC and UNBRO
• Certificate of Public Health issued by UNBRO
• Certificate of Sanitary Model Homestead Training issued by IRC.

Languages                    

• Certificate of Intensive Interpreter Training issued by ACE
• Certificate of General English Language issued by IRC
• Certificate of French Language by A1, A2, A3 issued by French Minister of Ministry of Education.

Computer                      

• Certificate of Completion in Computer Course issued by the Rabbit College.
• 16 Admiration Recommendations issued by IRC UNTAC.     

 

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

Khmer                         English                         French                          Thai

Mother tongue.             Fluent                          Fluent                          Some
 

COMPUTER SKILLS

Highly proficient         in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint

                                   In typing Khmer texts using Khmer fonts
 

Professional Legal Experiences as Lawyer

Criminal Cases

• Defense the accuse persons at the first instant of court, appeal court and supreme court more than 1000 cases such as: Thief, Robbery, Murders, Voluntary Manslaughter, Involuntary Manslaughter, Drugs Trafficking etc.
• Defense Juvenile such as: Case of rape, trafficking women etc.   

Civil  Cases

• Mandatory Lawyer representative the clients for the civil case more than 700 cases such as: Contracts Dispute, Divorce dispute etc ….   

Civil  Cases

• Mandatory lawyer representative the clients for the commercial cases such as: Big A Super Market Company, Park Way Company Capital Financial Co,. Ltd, Majestic Financial Co., Ltd,  Shoreline Company, HOURTEXTILE Collection Co., Ltd, Borey Sopheak Mokul Company and Korean Company etc…

Labor Case

• Representative the employers or employees at the ministry of labor and the arbitration council or the court.

Administration Case

• Mandatory lawyer representative the clients for the administration cases such as litigation administration between government authority and the company or the people.

Arbitrator

• To reconcile the litigation such as the civil cases commercial cases labor case etc…

Drafting and writing contracts of agreement between Cambodian and International Clients regarding

• Land/ House purchasing and selling
• Real Estate Pawning
• Clients contracts approval (License lawyer stamping)

 

Investment preparation documents

• Preparing the documents for the local or international investors who want to invest such as agriculture resort land concession etc… to any ministries or the Council development Cambodia (CDC).
• Preparation document to the ministry of commerce for requesting the company license.

 

Medal of Working For The Government

• 2001               : Medal Rank Sovattra Class Assarith
• 2003               : Medal Rank Kingdom of Cambodia Class Assarith
• 2010               : Medal Rank     
• 2011               : Medal Rank Monisaraphorn

Other Professional Working Experiences

• 2004-Present     
  • Member Council of Jury at minister of council

    • President of the internal meeting group, Coordinate and advise to the members during the meeting for  controlling correcting the Draft of Royal Degree, Draft of Sub-Degree, Government Planning Policy of the government and Draft of Laws etc..

    • Co-Chair President for technical expert meeting, Coordinate and advise to the members during the meeting for controlling correcting the Royal Degree, Sub-Degree, Government Planning Policy of the government and Laws etc..

    • Helping the owner of Ministry who drafts the Law such as the Royal Degree, Sub-Degree, and Government Planning Policy of the Government when these laws have been sent to interactive Ministries for the meeting.

• 1998-2004

  • Under Secretary of state at Ministry of Justice.

    • Duty: Responsible for the prosecutors, Asians department affair, Inspection department affair, and sign on the criminal records.

    • Representative of the Minister some duty such as: to participate the meeting, Conference, Seminar in Cambodia and others countries such as Singapore Thailand Malaysia and France etc...)

• 1995 – 1998

  •  

    Judicial Assistant of UN Center for Human Rights Kandal Provincial Court.

    • 1-    Organizing and training the police officers, chief and deputy chief commune on criminal law and procedure for 12 districts of Kandal, including commissariat office Observing district when police arrested accused person.
      2-    Observation of the first appearance court for the defense of the accused person’s rights.
      3-    Taking care of the prisoners in Kandal prison and making sure the persons are allowed to exercise, clean around the prison buildings, cook their food and grow plants in the prison garden, and monitoring the health of the prisoners, visiting them in their cells and asking them about diseases, then telling the police guard to send them to the hospital for emergency cases. Also have been instrumental in requesting that medical care is provided to the prisoners. Most of the prisoners have been insufficiently fed and, I contacted the World Food Program to provide food. In October 1997 Kandal Prison received food from the WFP for one month. I have also asked for the provision of writing materials and education materials for the prisoners to study and write send letters to their families. 
      4-    Writing of monthly reports and accounts.
      5-    Monitoring and investigating of human rights violation cases.
      6-    Relations with government officers.
      7-    Organization of meetings for local human rights organizations and organization of meeting of judicial officers.
      8-    Assisting the consultant by translating and interpreting during training of and consultation by the judge, prosecutors, clerk courts on criminal and civil law.

 

• 1995-1998
  • President of the Khmer doctor association for repatriation
    • To supervised control all the staff of Khmer doctor association for repatriation, during working in the office or send them to take care or cure the patient at the T3 prison Kandal prison or take care and cure the poor people at the country side.  
• 1994 – 1995
  • General Manager of Cambodian Defender Project in Phnom Penh. Supervised and control the staff, assigned the guards to set up a daily schedule for office security, evaluated the performance of the work done by the cleaners in the whole building, coordinated communication, took care of all office equipment and repairs of small equipment such as the motor pump, are conditioners, copy machine, generator, car and the electricity.

    • Assisted the director as interpreter, translator, copier of documents, delivering letters, booking flights, and extending visas.

    • Purchased office supplies and dealt with the petty cash account

    • Listed the names of accused persons and their families who visited the office in the office’s record books.

    • Leased with the government officers, such as the governor, deputy governor etc., to request permission for the defenders and lawyers to visit their clients at the prison.

    • Leased with judges, chiefs of judges, clerks of court, prosecutors, and police officers for information on cases at the Municipal court and Kandal court, PJ. And T3 prison.

    • Kept documents related to civil and criminal law that for the administrative department.

 

• 1993 – 1994
  • Human Rights Provincial Officer and Defender for CHRTO, I trained at least five to six hundred people for a week in human rights, and the trainees included monks, teachers, students, government authority working in Municipal, Supreme, Kandal, Kampong Cham courts.

• 1992 – 1993:   

  • Training Assistant for Human Rights and Defenders in Rattanakiri Province, as such, supervised the four trainers and the training the police officers on Human Rights, criminal law, and criminal procedure of UNTAC and constitutional law in the province, districts, communes, villages and to the Military, Monks, local people and students and also defended criminal and civil cases for the clients.

• 1989 – 1992:   

  • Assistant to the Public Health in Kao I Dang Refugee Camp, staff supervised writing about epidemiology diseases such as STD, HIV, AIDS, measles, dengue, and dengue hemorrhage fever, malaria, diarrhea and how to use the birth control medicine. Taught the people, medical staff and staff of NGOs (at least 500 persons per week) about the above disease and topics. Took blood from and examined and conducted other tests on the prostitutes in the area and then sent the list of those who were diseased to the hospital for medical treatment. I also did AIDS, dengue, hemorrhage campaigns, etc.

• 1984 – 1989:   

  • Medical Assistant in Site B Refugee camp-worked in the hospital, with rotating duties in the OB, Pediatrics, Adult, TB, surgical ward and OPD for treating the patients with general diseases.

• 1982 – 1984:   

  • Nursing in Or Smach Hospital Refugee Camp – took care of patients by giving them medicine and explaining to the patients how to use the medicines, monitored urine catheters input/output, injected medicine ordered by the doctor, took smears, blood or stool samples to the laboratory technician for examination, took vital signs, requested medicine for patients, Provided interrupt feeding, etc.
        Responsible the patients in ward and registering the name of medicines and patients.

• 1979 – 1982:   

  • Department director of transmission in Phnom Penh, supervised and control the military who worked as transmission experts in Cambodia.

• 1975 – 1979:   

  • Youth Mobile Team. Kandal Province, worked at the rice field.

• 1975    :   

  • Student in Phnom Penh.

REFERENCES

Mr. Chiv Song Hak, President of the Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia.
    Address: #10-11E1E2E3, St.180, SangKat Boengraing, Khan Doun Penh, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
    Tel: (855) 23 220 237 / 23 213 658.
    Email: info@bakc.org.kh / website: www.bakc.org.kh
    
H.E Som Sophal, Vice-President of Member of the Council of Jury of the Council of Ministers.
    Tel: (855) 12 421 669.