EVIDENTIARY INEQUALITY AND EFFECTIVE ACCESS TO CIVIL JUSTICE: A STAGED EVIDENCE PROTOCOL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL COMPENSATION IN VIETNAM
1. Introduction. – 2. The Reform Problem: Protective Rules, Fragmented Procedure. – 3. What Practice and Comparison Reveal. – 3.1. Chà Và: Technical Mobilisation Before Legal Settlement. – 3.2. Sonadezi-Bà Chèo: Administrative Mapping and Negotiated Support. – 3.3. Vedan-Thị Vải: When an Administrative Map Becomes an Evidentiary Boundary. – 3.4. What the Three Episodes Establish, and Do Not Establish. – 3.5. Functional Comparison: European Union and German Lessons. – 4. A Staged Protocol for Effective Access to Civil Justice. – 4.1. Preservation and Threshold Screening. – 4.2. Targeted Evidence Production and a Responsive Causal Account. – 4.3. Independent Expert Inquiry. – 4.4. Common Causation and Source Allocation. – 4.5. Individual Valuation, Settlement and Remedial Completion. – 5. Reform by Legal Vehicle, Institution and Safeguard. – 5.1. Measures Available under Existing Authority. – 5.2. Regulatory and Budgetary Measures. – 5.3. Legislative Measures. – 5.4. Phasing, Evaluation and Opposing-Party Safeguards. – 6. Conclusions.