Citizen Judges Act - News and Editorial Roundup (September 2020)

Citizen Judges Act - News and Editorial Roundup (September 2020)

Last edited: 2026-08-29

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News

Date Title (Retrieval Platform)
2020/9/1 Judicial Yuan Convenes Inter-Ministerial Meeting to Advance the Citizen-Judge System (United Daily News)
2020/9/1 Judicial Yuan Establishes Liaison Group to Put "Citizens on the Judge's Bench" (China Times)
2020/9/1 Judicial Yuan Convenes Inter-Ministerial Meeting to Advance the Citizen-Judge System (Central News Agency)
2020/9/2 Citizen Judges to Begin in 2023; Judicial Yuan Convenes Inter-Branch Liaison Meeting (Liberty Times)
2020/9/2 Citizen-Judge System Approaches: Inter-Branch Promotion Liaison Group Holds First Meeting (ETtoday)
2020/9/3 [Mirror Law] Welcoming the Era of Citizen Judges (Mirror Media)
2020/9/5 "A New Oligarchic Politics Is Taking Shape": Yu Ying-Lung on U.S. Pork Imports and Parties That Shift Policies for Votes (The Storm Media)
2020/9/6 Tsai Ing-Wen: Lawyers Should Work Across Generations and Regions to Give Voice to the Public (United Daily News)
2020/9/6 Citizen-Judge System Approaches; President Tsai Hopes Lawyers Will Offer More Advice (United Daily News)
2020/9/6 On Lawyers' Day, Tsai Ing-Wen Says the Citizen Judges Act Will Bring Judgments Closer to Society and Increase Confidence in the Judiciary (Liberty Times)
2020/9/6 Tsai Ing-Wen: Citizen Judges Can Strengthen Confidence in the Judiciary as Judicial Reform Continues (China Times)
2020/9/6 Tsai Ing-Wen: Citizen-Judge System Is Approaching; Government Looks to Lawyers for Advice (ETtoday)
2020/9/6 President Tsai Attends National Lawyers' Day Celebration and Calls on the Legal Profession to Help Deepen Judicial Reform (ETtoday)
2020/9/6 Citizen-Judge System Approaches; President Tsai Hopes Lawyers Will Offer More Advice (Central News Agency)
2020/9/6 Citizen-Judge System Approaches; Tsai Ing-Wen Hopes Lawyers Will Offer More Advice (TaroNews)
2020/9/7 [Instant Commentary] From the Labor Standards Act to U.S. Pork Imports: The Dilemma of Two Right-Wing Parties (United Daily News)
2020/9/7 First Regional Citizen-Judge Briefing in Taichung? Hsu Tsung-Li: The Birthplace of Judicial Reform (United Daily News)
2020/9/7 Do Judges' Hearts Sink at the Citizen Judges Act? Hsu Tsung-Li: Reform Is No Easy Road (United Daily News)
2020/9/7 First Citizen Judges Act Briefing: Judicial Yuan President Urges Judges to Avoid Dense Legal Jargon (Apple Daily)
2020/9/7 Lawyers' Day / President: Citizen Judges Act Is an Important Milestone (Liberty Times)
2020/9/7 Citizen Judges Approaching; First Training Program Opens in Taichung (China Times)
2020/9/7 [Press Advisory] Judicial Reform Adrift: Navigating Back to Public Expectations (CivilMedia@TW)
2020/9/8 Three Years After the National Conference on Judicial Reform, Monitoring Coalition Urges President Tsai to Address Bureaucratic Inertia (United Daily News)
2020/9/8 JRF Says Judicial Reform Is Adrift and Calls on Government to Communicate with Civil Society and Adjust Policy Direction (Liberty Times)
2020/9/8 Judicial Yuan's Criminal Department Adds a Division in Preparation for Citizen Judges Act Implementation (Liberty Times)
2020/9/8 Making the Judiciary More Accessible: Judicial Yuan Promotes Plain-Language Judgments (China Times)
2020/9/9 At Third Taipei Bar Association Lawyers' Day Banquet, Tsai Ing-Wen Thanks Lawyers for Promoting Judicial Reform (United Daily News)
2020/9/9 On Lawyers' Day, President Says She Hopes to Support Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Taiwan (Central News Agency)
2020/9/10 Judicial Yuan Holds Preparatory Meeting for Citizen Judges Act Implementation (United Daily News)
2020/9/10 Countdown to Citizen Judges: Hsu Tsung-Li Urges Faster Preparations (China Times)
2020/9/10 Judicial Yuan Holds Preparatory Meeting for Citizen Judges Act Implementation (Central News Agency)
2020/9/11 Shih Mu-Chin Scandal Exposes Judiciary's Improper Ties with Wealthy Businessman; JRF Calls for Judges Act Amendments (Liberty Times)
2020/9/15 Are Judges Too Out of Touch-Should AI Decide Instead? Academia Sinica Expert on Foreign "AI Judges" and Recidivism Prediction (The Storm Media)
2020/9/16 Judicial Yuan Holds Train-the-Trainer Workshop in Preparation for Citizen Judges Act (United Daily News)
2020/9/16 New Citizen-Judge System Still Confusing; 117 Legal Professionals Attend Training (Liberty Times)
2020/9/16 Citizen Judges Approaching; Judicial Yuan Holds Train-the-Trainer Workshop (China Times)
2020/9/16 Judicial Yuan Holds Train-the-Trainer Workshop in Preparation for Citizen Judges Act (Central News Agency)
2020/9/20 Citizen Judges Begin in Three Years; Visual Guides to the Judiciary Expand Nationwide (Apple Daily)
2020/9/21 [Political Turbulence] DPP Caucus Leadership Remains Unsettled; Ker Chien-Ming Responds (Apple Daily)
2020/9/22 Prosecutors Unfamiliar with Citizen-Judge System; Ministry of Justice Forms Response Team (Liberty Times)
2020/9/24 Toward a Bilingual Nation: English Courses Added to Civil-Service Training in November (Liberty Times)
2020/9/25 Sentencing Debate Seminar: Wu Tsan Says Two-Stage Proceedings for Conviction and Sentencing Could Be Considered (United Daily News)
2020/9/25 The "Wu Tsan Standard" for Life or Death Sentences-Wu Tsan Explains It Himself (China Times)
2020/9/25 Sentencing Debate Seminar: Wu Tsan Says Two-Stage Proceedings for Conviction and Sentencing Could Be Considered (Central News Agency)
2020/9/28 Would a Standalone Technology-Assisted Investigation Act Be Better? Judicial Yuan: The Key Is Judicial Authorization (United Daily News)
2020/9/28 Computer Selects 7,000 Prospective Citizen Judges; Shilin District Court Mails Questionnaires (United Daily News)
2020/9/28 Fill Out a Questionnaire and Become a Judge? Residents in Shilin District Court Jurisdiction Receive an Unexpected Notice (China Times)
2020/9/29 New Taipei District Court's "Tour the Courthouse Together" Puts Citizen Participation in Trials in the Spotlight (United Daily News)

Editorials

Date Author Title (Retrieval Platform)
2020/9/2 Lin Chih-Chieh [PhD Forum] Lin Chih-Chieh: A Full Jury System Lacks Supporting Measures; the Citizen-Judge Model Provides Coordination (Liberty Times)
2020/9/4 Huang Shu-Sheng, Chen I-Ming Your Turn to Be the Judge? Rights and Duties of Citizen Judges (United Daily News)
2020/9/5 Wu Hsueh-Chan Why Did the Citizen Judges Act Take Three Days of Voting to Pass? A Look at Legislative Procedure in the Legislative Yuan (Plain Law Movement)
2020/9/6 Yu Ying-Lung Yu Ying-Lung's View: What Has Changed-and What Hasn't-in Tsai Ing-Wen's Decision-Making Style (The Storm Media)
2020/9/12 Chang Hsun-Ching Opinion: Calling for Justice Amid Piles of Money (The Storm Media)
2020/9/15 Teacher A-Sen Mentally Ill Defendant Acquitted of Murder? Citizen Judges Would Have to Agree Unanimously (Newtalk)
2020/9/16 Wang Hsueh-Chuan, Hung Shih-Hsuan Expert Commentary - Personal-Data Protection and Labor Rights for Citizen Judges (China Times)

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