Background
The General Directorate of Judicial Administrative Affairs within the Ministry of Justice coordinates administrative oversight of financial matters in Cambodia’s first-instance provincial and municipal courts. On 23 June 2026 the directorate convened senior court leaders and officials to initiate a coordinated programme of monitoring, inspection and evaluation for those financial operations.
Court revenue categories subject to monitoring include deposits, guarantees, remittances, custody and storage fees, fines, application fees, and other locally collected revenues. Participants at the opening session included the directorate’s leadership, the General Secretariat of Judicial Affairs, presidents of first-instance provincial and municipal courts, deputy prosecutors, court secretariats, and heads of court administrative units.
Key Developments
On 23 June 2026, His Excellency Phov Somphi, Royal Government Representative and Director-General of the General Directorate of Judicial Administrative Affairs, led a meeting to launch the monitoring programme. The agenda focused on starting follow-up work to inspect and assess how first-instance courts implement tasks related to deposits, guarantees, remittances, custody, fines, application fees and other revenues.
Institutional Role
The initiative positions the Ministry’s administrative directorate as the central coordinator for revenue-related oversight across provincial and municipal first-instance courts. The meeting drew participation from ministry-level secretariats and local court leadership to align reporting lines and review progress reports and operational issues affecting revenue collection and recordkeeping.
Operational Implications
The launched work stream emphasises systematic tracking, inspection and evaluation of revenue management tasks at the court level. Records and reports produced through the inspections are intended to document implementation status and identify collection or administrative issues that require administrative follow-up by court management and relevant ministry units.
Source
Ministry of Justice social media post, 23 June 2026: source post.
