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25Nov.
2003

Enabling the Judicial Yuan to Truly Become the Highest Judicial Organ in Name and in Fact

Ku Li-hsiung / Board Member, Judicial Reform Foundation

In October 2001, the Judicial Yuan Grand Justices rendered Interpretation No. 530, holding that under the current…

14Nov.
2003

Justice, Open the Mic!

Lo Ping-cheng / Standing Executive Committee Member of the Judicial Reform Foundation, Chairperson of the Hsinchu Bar Association, Attorney-at-Law

Media outlets and citizens lined up overnight to witness the historic moment of the first former president testifying…

14Nov.
2003

Judges "Observe, Listen, and Evaluate" for Advancing Attorney Quality!—Results of the Hsinchu Attorney Evaluation Released

Hsinchu District Court, Hsinchu Bar Association, Judicial Reform Foundation

Today (November 14), the Hsinchu District Court, the Hsinchu Bar Association, and the Judicial Reform Foundation…

06Nov.
2003

The Performance Evaluation System and the Culture of Fabrication

Ma Tsai-ch'in / JRF Working Committee Member, Attorney

Following recent news reports about Ko Ch'i-nung, a criminal investigation squad leader in Nantou County, colluding…

27Oct.
2003

A Critical Moment for Judicial Reform—The Retrial of the Su Chien-ho Case as a Touchstone for the New Criminal Procedure System

Judicial Reform Foundation, Taiwan Association for Human Rights, Humanistic Education Foundation

Although the widely followed retrial of Su Chien-ho and two others resulted in an acquittal by the High Court on…

25Oct.
2003

Self-help? Right to resistance? Privilege?

Kao Yung-ch'eng / Executive Committee Member and Attorney at Law, Judicial Reform Foundation

Scholars in the United States have once conducted research showing that the miscarriage of justice rate in the U.S.…

17Oct.
2003

An Evaluation of the Judgment in Ch'en Tzu-ch'iang's Case

Taiwan Association for Human Rights, Ho Lai-chieh (Associate Professor, College of Law, National Taiwan University), Huang Chao-yi (Professor, College of Law, Soochow University), Li Mao-sheng (Professor, College of Law, National Taiwan University)

This case concerns a kidnapping and extortion incident that occurred in September 1995. The kidnapped construction…

17Oct.
2003

Press Conference on the Publication of the Judgment Evaluation for the Hsu Tzu-chiang Case

Judicial Reform Foundation

Although the highly anticipated kidnapping and murder case involving Hsu Tzu-chiang resulted in a final death sentence…

15Oct.
2003

The Birthplace of Taiwan's Judicial Independence: Room 303 of the Taichung District Court

Wang Chin-shou (Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Before the end of 1992, Room 303 of the Taichung District Court was merely an unassuming, eight-ping corner office.…