A/HRC/15/46 with full-time members, would allow for increased capacity, allowing the Assistance Team created in 2009 to be disbanded. Other legal and judicial reform 76. The capacity of the Court of Appeals should be seriously enhanced to enable it to resolve its enormous backlog and manage new cases in a proper, timely and orderly manner. Additional courts of appeals covering one or more provinces should also be considered. The Court of Appeals in Phnom Penh should have more courtrooms and more resources to support its activities. 77. The Government should respect the independence of lawyers. The law on the Bar should be amended accordingly. 78. The Bar Association itself should not interfere in the work of lawyers. The lawyers should be free to decide for whom to provide their legal services. Only the manner in which the legal services are provided should be the matter for regulation by the Bar Association in order to maintain standards of professional ethics. The code of conduct for lawyers should be amended accordingly. 79. The Bar Association should support and protect public interest lawyers, whose role is crucial in promoting justice in the country. 80. The international development partners of Cambodia should increase their financial support to legal and judicial reform and assist the Bar Association to provide legal aid to the needy. 81. There should be a substantial increase in the budget devoted to justice. The Government should fund legal education for more people, especially from poorer and disadvantaged backgrounds. 82. The process of admission to the training school to become judges and prosecutors should be more transparent and competitive (perhaps through entrance examinations) and be supervised by an independent external body consisting of representatives from the judiciary, the Bar Association, and the faculties of Law in Cambodia. There should be a provision for scholarships for people from disadvantaged groups on merit to enable them to enter the legal profession. 83. The Government should accelerate the process of drafting the administrative code and administrative procedure code. 84. There should be provision for legal education and training for the judicial police who have an important role to play in the conduct of criminal investigations. 85. The Government should ensure that those who are arrested and detained have proper legal representation and immediate access to a lawyer. The Criminal Procedure Code should be amended to ensure that a person accused of committing a crime should have a legal representative present during police questioning. 86. The country should provide for special protection for people belonging to special groups, such as a separate juvenile justice system and should have provision for a family court. 87. The Government should have a more coherent policy and a consolidated mechanism in place to assist the judiciary. Such a policy should be designed to avoid a dual role for government departments in this regard. For this, the role of the Ministry of Justice should be strengthened and it should be provided with more resources in its 18