Commentary

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23Mar.
2015

Did the Sunflower Movement Reveal the True Face of the Judiciary?

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

The civic movement against the black-box Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement began on June 21, 2013, when the…

20Mar.
2015

Taking the Lead in Breaking the Law: Prosecutors Really Are an Indivisible Body

Kao Jung-chih / Executive Director, Judicial Reform Foundation

Recently, the Shihlin District Prosecutors Office searched the Neihu District Office, and Chief Prosecutor Lin…

19Mar.
2015

318 Anniversary Record: People Return to Parliament, Democracy Grows Up—Short Speech by the Volunteer Lawyers Group

Ch'en Yen-chün / Lawyer, 318 Volunteer Lawyers Group

Do friends remember that in the early morning of March 24 last year, a Dr. Wang was beaten on the abdomen by riot…

18Mar.
2015

Stop Making Grand Justices Appointments Based on Spoils Systems

Lin Meng-huang / Judge, Taipei District Court

"Since when did the Judicial Yuan, tasked with constitutional interpretation, become a tax court?" This was stated by…

12Mar.
2015

March 12, 2015: Ministry of Justice's Commemorative Gift for 228

Kao Jung-chih / Executive Director, Judicial Reform Foundation

With 228 just past, numerous commemorative events have taken place, and transitional justice has once again been…

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…