Commentary

Huang Ta-yuan (Working Committee Member and Attorney, Judicial Reform Foundation)

The principle of non-disclosure of investigations is explicitly stipulated in the Code of Criminal Procedure. Personnel…

Kao Jung-chih / Executive Committee Member and Attorney, Judicial Reform Foundation

Article 81 of the Constitution provides: "Judges shall hold office for life. No judge shall be dismissed except by…

Hsu Li-hsin / JRF Working Committee Member, Practicing Lawyer

The current Criminal Code was enacted in 1935 during an agrarian society in China. Over the past 68 years, instead of…

Kao Yung-cheng / Executive Director of JRF, Attorney-at-Law

Car bomb suspect Kao Pao-chung was recently arrested. When prosecutors applied to the court for his detention, the…

Lin Meng-huang (Judge, Legal Education Committee of the Judicial Reform Foundation)

In view of repeated incidents of students suffering injuries from corporal punishment by teachers, the Association for…

Yu Po-hsiang (Executive Committee Member, Judicial Reform Foundation, Taiwan; Attorney-at-Law)

According to reports, the People First Party caucus held a press conference on the 17th announcing that it will promote…

Huang Ya-ling / Executive Committee Member, JRF

Ever since the presidential and vice-presidential shooting incident on March 19, political wrangling between the ruling…

Judicial Reform Foundation

Former Legislative Yuan President Liu Sung-pan was sentenced to four years in prison by a final court judgment for…

Lin Ching-p'ing / Standing Executive Committee Member of JRF, Attorney-at-law

In Greek mythology, Cassandra is a tragic prophetess: the god Apollo grants her the ability to make accurate…