【Case Call for Submissions】Seeking Information on Judges Erroneously Pasting Judgment Contents
Last edited: 2026-07-24
The JRF previously introduced the following case in the Judgment Search section of the Judges Act Combat Manual:
Internet Copy-Pasting of Judgments Results in Dismissal of Slacking Judge
Judge A of the Kaohsiung District Court was unable to write a judgment and instead went online to find a judgment with the same monetary amount, which they copied and pasted as a substitute. After receiving the judgment, both parties found the content completely unrelated to the case, making it impossible to draft grounds for appeal, and therefore filed a complaint out of indignation. In fact, judges randomly copy-pasting judgments is not uncommon. In legal practice, this tactic—where a judge, unable to finish writing a judgment in time, goes online to copy and paste another case's judgment to report case completion, and then hurriedly writes the actual judgment to hand over to the clerk for replacement—is called "supplementing a nutritional supplement." In this case, Judge A failed to replace the pasted text and was a repeat offender. To eradicate the bad habit of judges randomly copy-pasting judgments, the Personnel Review Committee of the Judicial Yuan set an unprecedented precedent by resolving to relieve Judge A of judicial duties, temporarily reassigning them as a judicial affairs officer, and forwarding the entire case to the Commission on the Disciplinary Sanctions of Functionaries for further disposition.
A member of the public recently filed a complaint with the Foundation regarding a similar matter. Although the judge was presiding over "a case between two companies concerning whether compulsory execution proceedings should be revoked," the judgment received by the citizen "contained discussions regarding the inheritance of estates among natural persons in the second half," and even featured names completely unrelated to the facts of the case—a total mismatch! Feeling bewildered and baffled, and to prevent their rights and interests from being unjustly impaired, the citizen immediately filed an appeal. Upon reviewing the case files, however, the citizen discovered that the judgment attached to the file belonged to a different version from the one received from the court; the second half of the judgment in the file no longer contained the irrelevant estate inheritance content, but instead returned to the facts of the case. It is evident that the judge failed to correct the judgment content in accordance with the law and instead privately substituted the judgment!
Based on the citizen's complaint, the Foundation has already requested an individual case evaluation against the judge who erroneously pasted the wrong judgment. If you have encountered a similar situation, you may provide the judgment or other related case file documents to the Foundation. If the evidence is sufficient, the Foundation will request an individual case evaluation in accordance with legal procedures.
Judicial Reform Foundation Complaint Center
Complaint Center Hotline
- 02-2542-1958
- case@jrf.org.tw
This article is an AI-generated translation of the original Chinese text. In the event of any discrepancy, the Chinese version shall prevail.