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06Oct.
2015

2015 Fundraising Campaign Kicks Off: Leaving It to Lawyers Is Not Enough!

Judicial Reform Foundation

During the Sunflower Student Movement (318 Movement), volunteer lawyers declared, "Leave the rest to the lawyers." We…

05Oct.
2015

Su Yeong-chin is No Longer Fit to Serve as Grand Justice and Vice President of the Judicial Yuan

Chiu Hsien-chih / Ph.D. Candidate in Law, Heidelberg University, Germany; Citizen of Hsinchu City

Recently, the Grand Justices rendered Judicial Yuan Interpretation No. 732 regarding the Joint Development (Meilong)…

05Oct.
2015

Defending Forensic Professionalism: No Turning Back on Reform — Press Conference Opposing Partial Amendments to the Forensic Pathologist Act

Judicial Reform Foundation, Taiwan Association for Innocence

This press conference opposes the Ministry of Justice's proposed amendments to the Forensic Pathologist Act, which…

03Oct.
2015

Deconstructing the Judicial Yuan's "Viewer-Judge System"

Kao Jung-chih / Executive Director, Judicial Reform Foundation

To enable juries lacking legal expertise to understand, deliberate, and render verdicts, the constituent elements of…

03Oct.
2015

The Warden Is Off the Hook, But What's Wrong With You, Kaohsiung Prosecutors Office?

Kao Jung-chih / Executive Director, Judicial Reform Foundation

Regarding the Kaohsiung Prison hostage-taking incident, Warden Ch'en Shih-chih and Deputy Warden Lai Cheng-jung were…

02Oct.
2015

Vice President Su's Well-Intended Advocacy for Constitutional Complaints?

Kao Jung-chih / Executive Director, Judicial Reform Foundation

Recently, Judicial Yuan Vice President Su Yung-chin accepted a media interview to elaborate on the meaning of Judicial…

30Sep.
2015

To Appeal or Not: The Prosecutor-General Must Take a Stand — Press Conference Calling on the Prosecutor-General to Forego Appeal in the Hsu Tzu-chiang Case

Judicial Reform Foundation

After the Taiwan High Court rendered a not-guilty verdict in the ninth retrial of the Hsu Tzu-chiang case on September…

29Sep.
2015

Who is Shielding the "Rogue Judge"? The Ineffective Internal Controls of the Judge Elimination Mechanism

Lo Ch'eng-tsung / Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Financial and Economic Law, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology; Executive Committee Member, Judicial Reform Foundation

On September 24, the Judicial Yuan issued a press release stating that the Judges Evaluation Commission recommended the…

25Sep.
2015

"Lie Detector Reports Can Lie?!" Press Conference

Taiwan Association for Innocence, Judicial Reform Foundation

"Polygraph testing" is often resorted to by judicial practitioners as a form of "divination" when they cannot find…