2002 Work Results

&■Annual Focus

• Last year's action focus was "Reform of Police, Prosecutors, and Investigation Agencies in Crime Prevention and Investigation." The scope of work was overly broad, which dispersed our manpower and compromised execution effectiveness. This was reviewed at the annual planning meeting on November 23 of last year.
• Areas with relatively better work progress last year included: a. The "Police-Exercised Powers Act" passed its first reading, b. The "Partial Amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure" were proposed by legislators and completed legislative revision, c. The first draft of the "Criminal Defendants' Human Rights Handbook: Investigation Volume" was completed, d. The first draft of the "Directions for Preliminary Handling of Criminal Crime Scenes" was near completion. Other issues such as forensic medicine, criminalistics, and the reform of police, prosecutors, and investigation agencies yielded fewer concrete results.

&■Drafting and Revising Bills

• The "Police-Exercised Powers Act" has been reviewed and passed by the committee, and ongoing congressional lobbying is currently underway.
• The "Basic Act on Legal Aid" has been reviewed and passed by the committee, and ongoing congressional lobbying is currently underway.
• The "Judges Act" has been discussed with the Judges Association, the Association for Reforms in Criminal Justice, and the Taipei Bar Association, and was resubmitted for legislative proposal by legislators in the current session.
• The draft "Organic Act of the National Human Rights Commission" is also undergoing congressional lobbying.
• The "Partial Amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure" have been proposed by legislators and legislative revision has been completed.
• The "Partial Amendments to the Domestic Violence Prevention Act" has also been completed and will be proposed by legislators in the current session.

&■Monitoring and Evaluation

• Held the National Judicial Reform 3rd Anniversary Symposium and published the National Judicial Reform Conference 3rd Anniversary Health Check Report.
• Published the 2002 Judicial Online Poll.
• Judges Evaluation: Organized in cooperation with six major bar associations—Taipei, Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Miaoli, Taichung, and Kaohsiung—with the scope of evaluation expanded to judges in eleven courts.
• Attorneys Evaluation: In October of last year, we pioneered "Attorney Evaluation" in cooperation with the Hsinchu Bar Association and the Hsinchu District Court, which is scheduled to be published in November of this year.
• Court Observation: Observed the software and hardware facilities of seventeen courts across Taiwan and published the observation results at the end of September last year.

&■Case Pursuit and Assistance

• Assisted RCA sick employees in seeking compensation.
• Assisted the family members of Hsu Tzu-chiang (Hsu Tzu-chiang) and Lu Cheng in filing extraordinary appeals.
• Assisted the family members of Li Ying-hung, Lu Cheng, and Chiang Kuo-ching, as well as Attorney Chang Jo-wen (foreign national detention incident), in submitting petitions to the Control Yuan.
• Collected and categorized individual cases of improper investigations by police, prosecutors, and investigation agencies to serve as a basis for future policy monitoring.

&■Education and Outreach

• Launched courses on Civil Law and Public Law.
• The Judicial Humanities Lecture series held four sessions on European Human Rights and six sessions on Human Rights Care.
• Organized legal profession newcomer camps, rule of law education seed camps, and media camps.
• Invited a Yale Law School professor to Taiwan to participate in the Rule of Law Education Seminar, and held campus rule of law education roving seminars in Taipei, Taichung, and Kaohsiung.
• Held the 2nd Civil Judicial Reform Forum and the 2002 Judicial Reform Grant Paper Presentation.
• Held the 3rd Judicial Reform Grant Paper Selection event.
• Took over the Friday noon legal program on Tamsui River Broadcasting Station.
• Published legal commentary articles in major newspapers and accepted interviews with major media outlets from time to time.
• Published Judicial Reform Magazines issues 37 to 42.
• Published books such as "Shadow of Justice," "Grand Justices, Give an Explanation," and "Learning Law Through Movies," which received widespread social response.