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10Nov.
2020

The Shih Mu-Chin Case Should Be Heard in Public, and Investigation Reports on the Other "Shih Mu-Chins" Should Be Released - Monitoring the Shih Mu-Chin Case, Press Conference II

Judicial Reform Foundation

Two months after the Control Yuan released its investigation report on the Shih Mu-Chin case and called for a thorough…

06Nov.
2020

Challenges Facing Taiwan's Civil Society in 2021: Energy Policy and the China Factor

Economic Democracy Union, Taichung Office of the Judicial Reform Foundation

Energy policy remains one of Taiwan's most persistent public debates. From the 2018 referendum to another referendum in…

05Nov.
2020

Hai-Wang's Daybreak ✸ Chiou Ho-shun's Forgotten 32 Years - Exhibition Press Conference

Judicial Reform Foundation

In the year Chiou Ho-shun turned 60, the Judicial Reform Foundation, Taiwan Association for Human Rights, Amnesty…

04Nov.
2020

Citizen Judges: Is Everyone Ready? - Press Conference Launching the Civil Society Coalition for Monitoring the Citizen Judges Act

Judicial Reform Foundation

The Citizen Judges Act, passed on July 22, 2020, will introduce citizen participation into Taiwan's criminal courts on…

04Nov.
2020

Transparency, Participation, Supporting Measures, Evaluation, and Further Reform - Founding Statement of the Civil Society Coalition for Monitoring the Citizen Judges Act

Judicial Reform Foundation

The Citizen Judges Act will take effect on January 1, 2023. To promote popular sovereignty and the public's right to…

31Oct.
2020

Forum | Discussion of the Draft Technology-Assisted Investigation Act

Judicial Reform Foundation

The Ministry of Justice released a draft Technology-Assisted Investigation Act on September 8, 2020. The proposal…

30Oct.
2020

Citizen Judges Act - News and Editorial Roundup (October 2020)

Judicial Reform Foundation

A chronological archive of October 2020 news reports and commentary concerning the Citizen Judges Act, judicial…

30Oct.
2020

A Summer That Stripped Away My Sense of Superiority: Behind JRF's Interactive Instagram Game on Lay Participation in Trials

Li Li-Cheng

During JRF's campaign for a dual-track system of lay assessors and juries, the Advocacy Department created the…

30Oct.
2020

Crossing the Unknown, Drawing Closer to Wrongful Convictions: The School-Developed Required Course "The Distance Between Evidence and Truth"

Text by Hsiao Hao-Liang

I had known about wrongful convictions since I was young, but influenced by older family members, I used to think that…