Civil Procedure Reform
2026
NGO Version of the Draft Amendments to the Code of Civil Procedure for Robust Fact-Finding
Taiwan's Code of Civil Procedure has long lacked a comprehensive review of its rules of evidence and methods of…
2024
The Distance Between Justice and the People: Small Claims Litigation Is Anything But Simple
Auntie Lai, a retired high school teacher, got into a dispute with a construction contractor over waterproofing issues…
2023
Press Conference | Seizing the Legislative Yuan's Final Session: Five Judicial Reform Priorities
This month the Legislative Yuan opens its new session, the last of the Tsai administration. Bills that do not pass will…
2022
Discussing the Judicial Yuan's Neglect of Policy Impact Assessments
Inaugurated with much fanfare last July, the Commercial Court of the Intellectual Property and Commercial Court has…
2022
Online Petition | Opposition to the "Code of Civil Procedure" Amendments Infringing on Citizens' Right to Appeal
According to academic research, 70% of cases in which additional means of attack or defense are permitted in the second…
2022
Post-Meeting Press Release | Where is the Impact Assessment for Curtailing Citizens' Right to Appeal? Public Hearing on Implementing Judicial Reform to Establish a Pyramid-Shaped Litigation System
Today, Convener I-Hsin Chen of the Judiciary and Organic Laws and Statutes Committee of the Legislative Yuan convened a…
2022
Potential Impacts of Deleting Subparagraphs 3 and 6, Paragraph 1, Article 447 of the Code of Civil Procedure
According to 200 relevant judgments rendered by the Taiwan High Court and its branch courts retrieved by the JRF in…
2022
Analysis of the Supreme Court's Case Dispositions for Civil Appeals in 2020 and the Application of Article 469 of the Code of Civil Procedure
Based on the Judicial Yuan's 2020 statistics, Article 469, Subparagraph 6 of the Code of Civil Procedure (judgment not…
2022
Compilation of Statistical Information on Reversal Rates for First and Second Instance Civil Cases (2011–2020)
Compilation of statistical information on reversal rates for first and second instance civil cases (2011–2020)
2022
"Judicial Reform That Infringes on the People's Right to Appeal-President Tsai, Do You Support It?" Joint Petition Press Conference Opposing the Official Draft Amendments to the Code of Civil Procedure
JRF has long supported reform toward a "pyramid-shaped litigation system," but has maintained that reform must be…
2022
Press Conference Opposing the Judicial Yuan's Draft Amendment to the Code of Civil Procedure | Remarks by Legislator Chiu Hsien-chih
To restrict the right of appeal and adopt a very strict continuation-of-trial system at the second instance, we must…
2022
Online Meeting | Consultation on Oversight of Civil-Procedure Reform for the "Pyramid-Shaped Litigation System"
To implement resolutions of the 1999 National Conference on Judicial Reform and the 2017 National Congress on Judicial…
