Commentary

1235 articles
03Jun.
2015

A Look at How Japan Reformed Payment Orders

Liu Chia-jung / Attorney-at-Law, Standing Executive Committee Member of the Judicial Reform Foundation

Following Judge Ch'en Yü-hsiu's op-ed echoing my piece on the urgent need to reform payment orders, I respond by…

31May.
2015

Payment Orders Truly Must Be Amended

Liu Chia-jung / Attorney-at-Law, Standing Executive Committee Member of the JRF

In over a decade of practicing law, I have frequently encountered cases where victims of payment orders could not…

28May.
2015

Pragmatic Reform of Payment Orders

Ch'iu Po-jung / Attorney, JRF Payment Order Amendment Legal Team

The Legislative Yuan recently passed the preliminary review of the amendments to the payment order provisions. While…

27May.
2015

Amending the Law to Make Payment Orders More Comprehensive!

Lin I-chih (Attorney, JRF Payment Order Amendment Lawyers' Group)

Regarding Professor Wu Ts'ung-chou's op-ed published in Apple Daily yesterday (the 26th) offering various comments on…

14May.
2015

Reflections on Chief Prosecutors' Reassignments, Taking Yang Chih-yu as an Example

Kao Jung-chih / Executive Director, Judicial Reform Foundation

A strong critique is leveled against Yang Chih-yu for no other reason than that the Chief Prosecutor of the Taipei…

12May.
2015

A Payment Order Injustice That Even Sherlock Holmes, Conan, CSI, and Dr. Henry Lee Cannot Vindicate

Kaohsiung Lawyers Group for Payment Order Reform

One day, as usual, Hsiao-Feng took his debit card to a nearby ATM to withdraw cash. To his surprise, however, after he…

12May.
2015

A Payment Order Wrongful Conviction That Even a 'Unlawful' Judicial Ruling Could Not Save

Kaohsiung Lawyers Group for Payment Order Reform

The main reason the second-instance court overturned the first-instance judgment was that the second-instance judge…

12May.
2015

Failing once in a retrial for a payment order is not enough—you can fail a second and third time, too!

Kaohsiung Attorneys Group for Payment Order Law Reform

A-ts'un's story teaches us that expecting a debtor to obtain relief through a retrial after a payment order becomes…

05May.
2015

The Victory of a "Great" Prosecutor

Kao Jung-chih / Executive Director, Judicial Reform Foundation

While investigating a dispute over temple property between two rival factions of management committee members in…