Kim Sathavy, born in 1954 in Phnom Penh, is a Cambodian judge and the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Cambodia. She earned a Bachelor of Civil Law at Lumière University Lyon 2, trained as a judge at the Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature in Bordeaux from 1993 to 1995, and was a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan Law School in 1997 and 1998. She was appointed a judge of the Siem Reap Provincial Court in 1982 and rose to its vice presidency from 1986 to 1993, later advised Cambodia's Minister of Justice on training judges and prosecutors, served as legal advisor to Deputy Prime Minister Sar Kheng from 1999 to 2002, founded and directed the Royal School for Judges and Prosecutors from 2002 to 2005, and has served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Cambodia since May 2006.
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Kim Sathavy also upheld a lower court ruling to fine the acting president of the country's now-dissolved opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) Sam Rainsy for defamation in connection with a lawsuit brought against him by Prime Minister Hun Sen. However, Kim Sathavy has also taken decisions clearing opposing policies of the executive branch, for example ruling that there were flaws in the trial of Rath Rott Mony in June 2019 and ordered the Appeal Court to conduct another trial to relitigate the case.
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Kim Sathavy (Khmer: គិម សត្ថាវី; born 1954) is a Cambodian judge and the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Cambodia.
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Justice Kim graduated from Lumière University Lyon 2 with a bachelor of civil law, completing her judicial training at the Ecole Nationale de la Magistrature in Bordeaux (France) from 1993 to 1995.
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is a Cambodian judge and the first woman to sit on the
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Supreme Court hears cases of jailed RT fixer and former RFA journalists, CamboJA News
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Presiding Judge Kim Sathavy said that defendant Rott Mony’s work involved more than just translation.
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