1999 Work Achievements

■Legislative Advocacy and Promotion

1. Completed the draft Judges Act and Prosecutors Office Act. The Judges Act has already been formally proposed in the Legislative Yuan.
2. Drafted the Attorney Regulation Act, Police Act, and Basic Legal Aid Act.
3. Promoted constitutional amendments to incorporate criminal human rights into the Constitution.
4. Promoted the legalization of death penalty enforcement procedures.
5. Promoted the improvement and legalization of judicial procedures for sexual assault cases.
6. Advocated for the invalidation of the Statute for the Punishment of Bandits.
7. Monitored the restrictive provisions on appeals to the third instance court in the amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure.
8. Successfully lobbied the National Assembly during constitutional amendments to block the extension of police and prosecutorial detention (custodial interrogation without warrant) periods from 24 to 48 hours.

■Monitoring

1. Collaborated with academia and legal practitioners to hold the "National NGO's Judicial Reform Conference."
2. Established the "National Action Alliance for Judicial Reform" during the Judicial Yuan's National Judicial Reform Conference to monitor the conference's effectiveness and promote various judicial reform demands.
3. Published the 1999 Court Observation Survey Report and released the "Court Observation Photobook."
4. Published the 1999 Judges Evaluation, disclosing the list of failing judges; publicly emphasized the legitimacy and necessity of judge evaluations through a defamation lawsuit.
5. Held prosecutor evaluations.

■Education

1. Held the 1st Legal Professionals Freshmen Camp.
2. Held the 3rd College Students Summer Growth Camp.
3. Cooperated with the Taipei City Department of Education to organize a "One-Day Court Tour" guidance activity.
4. Initiated "One-Day Court Tours" for community groups and schools.
5. Led teachers and students of all school levels to visit courts to understand practical legal procedures.
6. Opened "Law and Society" courses at Taipei Wenshan Community College, and Banqiao and Yonghe Community Colleges in Taipei County, attracting many members of the general public to enroll.
7. Established a "Rule of Law Education" team to discuss and review secondary school rule of law education teaching materials, and held a secondary school rule of law teaching materials seminar on December 18.
8. Accepted invitations to deliver speeches at various universities, junior/senior high schools (for students and teachers), and civil organizations to promote rule of law education.
9. Cooperated with the Taiwan Media Watch Foundation, Association of Taiwan Journalists, and Taiwan Association for Human Rights to publish the "Media Human Rights Monitoring Report."
10. Cooperated with Yam.com to conduct a survey on judicial trust.
11. Cooperated with NetNews to hold the "Judicial Intelligence Quotient (JQ) Test" online poll.
12. Cooperated with NetNews to hold online voting for judicial news and influential figures of the year.

■Publication

1. Published two versions of the Judicial Reform Blueprint: the plain-language version and the legal version.
2. Published the collection of essays titled "National NGO's Judicial Reform" (published by Laureate Publishing), accumulating research related to judicial reform.
3. The Judicial Reform Magazine entered its fourth year, issuing issues 19 to 24 following a redesign.
4. The Judicial Reform website was redesigned and relaunched; activities such as public opinion surveys on judicial trust, the judicial intelligence quotient (JQ) test, voting for top ten judicial news stories, and voting for annual judicial figures were held.
5. Regularly issued a weekly e-newsletter.
6. Irregularly published various articles on judicial reform in the opinion columns of major newspapers.

■Services

1. Recruited judicial reform volunteers for administration, activities, court observation, and other tasks.
2. Collected grievance cases targeting categorized issues and held press conferences on judicial barriers faced by sexual assault victims, laborers, and people with physical and mental disabilities.
3. Initiated the 921 Earthquake pro bono legal services to provide legal consultation to disaster victims.
4. Established the 921 Legal Pro Bono Consultation Team to serve the disaster area in Dali City, Taichung County.
5. Provided free provisional attachment application procedure services to people in disaster areas.
6. Completed the [921 Post-Disaster Legal Protection Handbook], providing it to the public for free and distributing it to various disaster areas.
7. Collaborated with Global TV's Nantou Project to provide pro bono legal consultation services across 13 townships in Nantou.
8. Joined the Legal Rights Group of the "National NGO Coalition for Post-Disaster Reconstruction."