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11Mar.
2015

One of Taiwan's Judicial Transitional Justice Tasks ~ The Judicial Yuan Should Not Award the Judicial Medal to Hung Kuang-ts'an

Lin Meng-huang / Judge, Taipei District Court

If one has any understanding of Taiwan's past authoritarian history and human rights violations, the period just after…

11Mar.
2015

Court Observation on the Anti-CSSTA Movement: An Asymmetrical War

Lin Yü-ts'ang / Executive Secretary, Judicial Reform Foundation

Yesterday (March 10), I went to the district court to observe the respective preliminary proceedings for Hsu Li and…

11Mar.
2015

Reforming the Judges Evaluation System brooks no delay

Ch'en Yü-fan/Deputy Executive Director, Judicial Reform Foundation

In July of last year, the JRF filed a request with the Judges Evaluation Commission (JEC) to evaluate Judge Tseng…

06Mar.
2015

Truth, Confrontation, and Beheading Chickens

Kao Jung-chih / Executive Director, Judicial Reform Foundation

"Raising a chopper is your right; refusing to raise the chopper to behead a chicken means you are guilty." Beyond being…

05Mar.
2015

Prison Administration Reform: What Should the Ministry of Justice Do?

Chiang Nien-tsu / Assistant Professor, Master's Program in Non-Profit Management, Nanhua University

According to the Prison Act, the three main areas of sentence execution are moral instruction, prison labor, and…

05Mar.
2015

Perhaps We Should All Learn Humility in the Face of Truth: Post-Script on Court Observation of the Hsuch'en Case

Lin Yü-ts'ang / Executive Secretary, Judicial Reform Foundation

Before attending court hearings as an observer, my imagination of witness examination came mostly from movies. Films…

26Feb.
2015

How to Write a Prison On Fire Script?

Kao Jung-chih / Executive Director, Judicial Reform Foundation

The Kaohsiung Daliao Prison hostage incident is just like the movie "Prison On Fire." Because prisons are indeed…

26Feb.
2015

Justice Arrives for Hsu, Innocence Prevails—Waiting for the Blossoming of Justice, No Matter How Many Days It Takes

Judicial Reform Foundation

The Hsu Tzu-chiang case has spanned nineteen years, with the retrial (ninth remand) preparation proceedings held on the…

26Feb.
2015

Germany Also Has Straw Account Cases

Hsu Wei-chun (Associate Professor, Department of Financial and Economic Law, Chung Yuan Christian University; Standing Executive Committee Member, Judicial Reform Foundation)

Germany also encounters straw account cases, specifically those involving individuals providing account passwords to…