Issue Forum | A Hundred Puzzles, You Be the Judge—What Does the Judiciary Have to Do with Me?
Last edited: 2026-11-03
"Together, Let's Talk—Six Civil Questions" Issue Forum and Series of Preliminary Events
Yunghe Community University and New Chungho Community University are rooted in the founding ideal of "shaping a civil society." Once again combining their curricula with public issues this year, they are mobilizing faculty, students, and local residents in Shuanghe to care about public affairs by launching the [Together, Let's Talk—Six Civil Questions] forum and preliminary events. The JRF is partnering with the community universities for the opening day theme of "Civil Week": "Judicial Reform and Lay Judges."
The JRF has long worked from the bottom up to build civic consensus on the judiciary and promote judicial reform. What are the practical issues with the lay judge system? How have relevant measures been established? Most importantly, what is the impact of this system on the quality of judicial adjudication? Exploring these questions is an incumbent duty of the JRF.
Preliminary Event 1: What Does the Judiciary Have to Do with Me? Film "12 Angry Men" & Post-Screening Discussion
In addition to partnering with Chungho Community University and Yunghe Community University on "Legal Life and Judicial Human Rights" (the spring semester law course) this year, the JRF was also invited to co-host issue forums. For the first preliminary warm-up event, we were honored to invite Attorney Wu I-lun, whose lectures were exceptionally well-received during the spring semester, to lead students from the "Shuidangdang Handmade Soap Workshop" class in a post-screening discussion of the film [12 Angry Men]~
Wu I-lun Attorney
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Time: 4/29 (Mon) 19:00-21:30
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Location: Chungho Community University
Preliminary Event 2: What Does the Judiciary Have to Do with Me? Film "12 Angry Men" & Post-Screening Discussion
As a preliminary warm-up for the "2024 Issue Forum: Judicial Reform and Lay Judges," we specially invited the Yunghe Community University class "Life Story Exploration and Organization—Artistic Care Perspective" to partner with us. We also invited Attorney Yang Hsiu-hui to serve as the moderator, guiding participants to discuss the issue of public participation in trials following the screening of [12 Angry Men].
Yang Hsiu-hui Attorney
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Time: 5/06 (Mon) 19:00-21:30
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Location: Yunghe Community University
Issue Forum: Judicial Reform and Lay Judges
A Hundred Puzzles, You Be the Judge—What Does the Judiciary Have to Do with Me
Welcome to make your voices heard during this community event, engage in dialogue with the judiciary, and share the thoughts of laypeople on the rule of law~
The "Citizen Judges Act" has been in effect for over a year. In mid-January of this year (2024), the Judicial Yuan released advance notice of the survey research and performance evaluation report on the first year of the new system's implementation by the "Committee for the Performance Evaluation of the System of Citizen Participation in Criminal Trials," which will be successively announced starting in February. How is the system of citizen participation in trials actually being implemented? What key information and important issues can we glean from the official report? We look forward to discussing these issues with everyone in the community.
Chen Hsin-tsung Former PTS News Department Host, Current CTS New Media Department Manager
PanelistCh'en Szu-fan Judge
PanelistLü Cheng-yen Attorney, Director of Legal Policy Department at JRF
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Time: 5/13 (Mon) 19:00-21:50
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Location: National Taiwan Library (No. 85, Jhongan St., Jhonghe Dist., New Taipei City)
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