Work and Financial Report: January 1, 2025 – May 30, 2026

Established in 1995, the Judicial Reform Foundation (JRF) is Taiwan's longest-standing non-governmental judicial reform organization. We are committed to uniting civil society forces to continuously advance reforms aimed at building a fair, just, and trustworthy judiciary for the people.

At its founding, the JRF put forward three major demands: “Oppose Corruption, Oppose Interference, and Oppose Rushed Decision-Making.” Over the past 30 years, Taiwan's legal framework—including the Code of Criminal Procedure, the Constitutional Court Procedure Act, the Legal Aid Act, and the Crime Victim Rights Protection Act—has become increasingly comprehensive and complex. The scope of judicial reform has also evolved: at the 1999 National Judicial Reform Conference, judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and academics engaged in vigorous debate over reforms to judicial personnel and litigation systems; by the 2017 National Congress on Judicial Reform, diverse social groups had joined the discussion, united by the hope that the judicial system would safeguard the rights of the people.

We believe that reform must be “bottom-up,” bring about “substantive change,” and “expand its impact.” Only when the dream of reform becomes reality and reaches more people can we truly live in a society where the public trusts the judiciary.

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