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20Nov.
2014

Food Safety Law Amendments: A Pack of Lies or Time for Real Change?

Kao Jung-chih / Executive Director, Judicial Reform Foundation

Food safety scandals keep erupting, and the Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation has been amended more than five…

19Nov.
2014

Minutes of the Prison Visit Project Policy Forum

Taiwan Prison Reform Forum

The overcrowding crisis in Taiwan's prisons is nothing new. Yet beyond facing severe congestion, life for inmates…

14Nov.
2014

When Injustice Takes Shape

Kao Jung-chih / Executive Director, Judicial Reform Foundation

When I was young and did well in school, I would be made class monitor, acting as a good student in the eyes of the…

13Nov.
2014

NT$500 Compensation Shakes Up Mobile App Industry

Li Hsuan-yi / Attorney, JRF Working Committee Member

Recently, a citizen well-versed in the Personal Data Protection Act skillfully invoked Article 28, Paragraph 3 of the…

07Nov.
2014

A Fresh Look at the Same Old Judicial Cliché in the Lai Su-ju Case

Kao Jung-chih / Executive Director, Judicial Reform Foundation

Lai Su-ju was found guilty of corruption, with the court of first instance sentencing her to ten years in prison on the…

07Nov.
2014

Stop the Numbers: Premiere and Press Conference for the Advocacy Short Films on Chiou Ho-shun, Hsieh Chih-hung, and Cheng Hsing-tze

Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty, Taiwan Association for Innocence, Judicial Reform Foundation, Taiwan Association for Human Rights

Li Chia-huai, who served as the assistant director for the Hsueh Case documentary *Island Etudes 3: The Taste of…

06Nov.
2014

Support Amendments to the Judges Act to Weed Out Bad Prosecutors

Lo Ch'eng-tsung / Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Finance and Economic Law, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology

Legislation to remove incompetent judges and prosecutors is a crucial bill concerning the success or failure of…

05Nov.
2014

Why Are Judges and Prosecutors So Arrogant?

Wu Ching-ch'in (Associate Professor and Department Chair, Department of Law, Aletheia University)

The evaluation system for judges and prosecutors has been in place for nearly three years, but the accountability and…

03Nov.
2014

Commemorating Professor Ts'ai Tun-ming by Rescuing Wrongful Convictions

Hsu Yu-hsiu / Former Grand Justice

Over twenty years ago, following a seminar, I received a question: Is criminal law seemingly closely related to…