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Taiwan judiciary

Taiwan justice crashes, rotten & stinky judiciary shakes the nation to the core;
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pic. right: No.1 "Taiwan judiciary" on Bing, at 2023-5-28, 2023-4-15, 11-20-2020, 9-5-2020; pic. : No.1 "Taiwan judiciary" on Yandex Russia, 2023-5-28 , 2022-3-24, 2022-1-12, 2021-9-13; No.2 "Taiwan judiciary" on Bing, 2022-12-20, 2022-3-24, 2021-5-11; No.3 "Taiwan judiciary" on Bing, 2023-2-19; No.2 "Taiwan judiciary" on Yandex of Russia, 2023-4-15, 2022-12-20

★ TaiwanPlus, 2023-3-6: Taiwan Poll Finds Widespread Public Mistrust of Prosecutors / A poll has found that 85% of people in Taiwan think public prosecutors can be subject to political influence. More than half responded they were unsatisfied with recent judicial reforms, and a majority said they believed prosecutors engage in corruption behaviour when handling cases msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/taiwan-poll-finds-widespread-public-mistrust-of-prosecutors-taiwanplus-news/vi-AA18glWE

★ National ChungCheng University (ccu.edu), 2023-2-13: study found the percentage of Taiwanese trust in the judges is 32.8%.

★ China Times ( 中時), 2023-2-18: Since Tsai Ing-wen was elected as president, her influence has penetrated into the judicial system, the admin. has directed the judiciary what and how to do. Most of Taiwan's presidents were graduated from law school, but only to exploit the law and abuse their power... (台灣領導人多數是學法出身，卻被視為玩法弄權者，成民主毒瘤) chinatimes.com/opinion/20230217003946-262101?chdtv

★ United Daily , eidtorial , 2023-5-24 : After taking office since 2016, the ruling party has completely controlled over the personnel of the judiciary and other independent agencies, repeatedly intervening in particular cases, and constantly creating unconstitutional and illegal cases. A number of resolutions of the judicial reform meeting so far have no follow-up . After midterm election's defeat, grass-roots everywhere voiced dissatisfactions. The public don't trust justice - The law enforcement gov. covered up the power and rich, saw the other way as black-gold and corruption returned, instead, frequently refer those criticized the government to justice, The Social Order Maintenance Act, which the DPP advocated to abolish while in opposition, has now become a sharp weapon to suppress people's freedom of speech。udn.com/news/story/7338/7185987?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2

★ China Times, editorial , 2023-4-10	an anti-corruption union is what Taiwan needs, KMT earns public trust on anti-corruption issue? ...The vaccine procurement case involving huge profits is full of doubts, but the prosecutors and investigation gov. don't even touch it ! chinatimes.com/opinion/20230410004586-262101?chdtv
★ United Daily, 2023-4-1	Taiwan judiciary suppresses the opposition, lets go the ruling party (打壓在野黨輕縱執政黨司法想當鷹犬？) udn.com/news/story/11091/7072002?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub11091_pulldownmenu_v2
★ United Daily, 2023-4-23	Taipei chief prosecutor steps down for low degree of adaptability (on HsinChu city mayor Ann Kao's case), disappointing the top ranking。Some other prosecutors did good job on major political cases got promotion. udn.com/news/story/7338/7116838?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub7338_pulldownmenu_v2

★ United Daily (聯合報社評), editorial, 2023-6-1, 2023-5-30: President Tsai Ing-wen usually selects grand justice by their political stance ; It's almost certain that all 15 grand justices will be Tsai's faction. In the future any constitutional interpretation (釋憲案) must be biased. udn.com/news/story/11091/7201189?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2 udn.com/news/story/7338/7204383?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2

★ United Daily (聯合報社評), editorial, 2023-1-12 : The courthouse is still a business run by the ruling party udn.com/news/story/11091/6906767?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub11091_pulldownmenu_v2

★ US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices released at 2022-4-12 (state.gov/reports/2021-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/taiwan/):

nthe Ministry of Justice and the Judicial Yuan referred six officials to the Control Yuan for criminal investigation, including former minister of justice Tseng Yung-fu, former prosecutor general Wu Ying-chao, and two others for investigation of noncriminal misconduct, including Supreme Administrative Court judge..., the Judicial Yuan referred six former judges to the Control Yuan for investigation of noncriminal misconduct. the Ministry of Justice investigated 77 other incumbent and former judicial and law enforcement officials implicated in similar behavior with the same businessperson.
na senior investigator of the Ministry of Justice's Investigation Bureau was indicted for corruption for allegedly profiting from the sale of narcotics worth more than 168 million New Taiwan dollars ($5.6 million) seized in law enforcement investigations over eight years.
nIn 2020 presidential and legislative elections, President Tsai Ing-wen won re-election,...there were allegations of vote buying by candidates and supporters of both major political parties.

pic.: No.1 "Taiwan prosecutors" on Bing,
2023-5-28, 2023-4-15

pic. : No.1 "Taiwan prosecutors" on Yandex of Russia, 2023-5-28;

No.1 "Taiwan's prosecutors" on Yandex of Russia, 2023-5-28, No.2 at 2023-4-15; No.1 "Taiwan's prosecutors" on Yandex of Russia, 2022-1-12, 2021-9-1

★ China Times, editorial, 2022-12-25: After Taiwan's ruling party drubbed in midterm election, in a review DPP held for its loss, the grassroots reported that (1) black gold (2) the judiciary loses the public trust (3) too many fraud and criminal (murder or killing) cases are main factors chinatimes.com/opinion/20221225002471-262101?chdtv

★ China Times, editorial, 2022-11-16: After the Democratic Progressive Party came to power, the judiciary is willing to degenerate under the selective handling of cases. As long as the case is related to the ruling party, the legal system would delay judging it or concluding it, or even tried to overturn the case through retrial. chinatimes.com/opinion/20221116005059-262101?chdtv

★ FTV news (民視 ftvnews.com.tw/video/detail/EZGVKONcl4I ), 2022-12-17: Taipei city mayor Ko: I still hope that the judiciary is the last line of defense of the country, so far it has not met this standard (希望司法是國家最後一道防線，到目前為止還沒有達到這個標準). Expert: Justice is not the last line of defense for social justice. The judiciary has no way to convince Taiwanese people. All signs of judicial reform are gone. Prosecutors might be self-restricting (自我限縮) themselves depending who the suspect is (Varies from person to person). The variables are too big for us to believe. Many judges and prosecutors transfer their job to be a lawyer, rising the question that - is judging or investigation working well ? The current judges and prosecutors are their juniors, the field of judiciary still "respect" the ethics. In today's Taiwan, the clients usually do not ask which lawyer is more capable or more experienced, but ask whether or not the lawyer is familiar with judges and prosecutors. They are all talking about relationships and connections! Taiwan's judicial reform will never work ! 資深媒體人吳國棟

★ National ChungCheng University, 2022-2-14: study found 2/3 Taiwanese are not satisfied with the quality of judgment of criminal cases deptcrc.ccu.edu.tw/index.php?option=module&lang=cht&task=pageinfo&id=432&index=1

★ United Daily, editorial (udn.com/news/story/11091/6060260?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub11091_pulldownmenu_v2), 2022-1-25 : More people suffered fear from invisible and delicate social control and threats by DPP government' flank and judiciary (prosecutor, police) ... (檢警司法恐嚇，相比蔣家統治的線民監控，更細膩無形)

★ United Daily, editorial, 2022-5-15 : The Five Powers (legislative, judiciary, administrative, supervision, examination) have been firmly in control by Taiwan's president, the executive power guides the judiciary from time to time, lawmakers and Control Yuan intend to interfere the judiciary, the judiciary is self-destructing... udn.com/news/story/7338/6313776?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2

★ China Times, editorial, 2022-7-16: The DPP exonerates the crime of former president Chen by using political means has brought shame to Taiwan's judiciary, making the darkest day in Taiwan's judicial history. DPP will be happy because since then there's no law to control paying bribes. chinatimes.com/opinion/20220715003419-262101?chdtv

★ Transparency International, Germany / Global Corruption Barometer, released in 2022 - comparisons among main Asian countries the percentage of Taiwanese paying a bribe to judges or magistrates is higher than that in China, Japan, Malaysia
country	people who think government corruption is a big problem	public service users paid a bribe in the previous 12 months	police	gov. officials	local gov. officials	judges, magis- trates	corruption level increased in previous 12months
Taiwan	90%	17%	67%	19%	20%	15%	38%
Japan	84	2	10	7	26	6	36
Malaysia	71	13	30	28	16	12	20
China	62	28	16	18	18	13	39
S Korea	55	10	8	26	42	24	17
transparency.org/en/countries/taiwan

★ China Times, editorial, 2022-3-24: Law Firm was being searched by the prosecutor ! The rights of lawyers have been violated! A press conference urges Taiwan's prosecutors not to cross the red line, not to infringe upon the democracy, human rights, and rule of law. Judicial reform is one of the loudest slogans since President Tsai I. W. took office 6 years ago. The biggest change so far of the judicial reform is that political correctness becomes the most important thing in handling legal cases. The "corruption & smuggling cigarettes" case (chinatimes.com/newspapers/20210612000418-260106?chdtv) by Taiwan Presidential Office's national safety guard turning into a "overbought" case is an example. (chinatimes.com/opinion/20220323004844-262101?chdtv)

★ United Daily, 2022-6-5 : Since 2014 till last year, according to National ChungCheng University (中正大學犯罪研究中心) studies, no matter DPP(民進黨) or KMT(國民黨) taking office, the public trust on judges has been low (about 30-%) 。Taiwan's president holds both executive power and judicial power, which violates the basic principles of separation of powers and judicial independence in a democratic country。Therefore, Article 77 of the Constitution should be abolished. udn.com/news/story/121823/6363179?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub121823_pulldownmenu_v2

劉明德／德國柏林自由大學政治學博士

★ yUSA Country Reports on Human Rights practices, 2021-3-30: Some political commentators and academics, however, publicly questioned the impartiality of judges and prosecutors involved in high profile, politically sensitive cases.
★ The Liberty Times, 2021-6-18, editorial : Taiwan president Tsia I. W.'s optimization of government focused on judicial reform, which she stated frankly is still distant from public expectations. ( https://talk.ltn.com.tw/article/paper/1455453 蔡總統對於優化政府體制，另特別著墨在司法改革上，她坦言司改的成果，和人民的期待「還有一段距離」)

★ UDN, 2021-10-14: In the past 5 years, public trust on Taiwan's judiciary is lower and lower, 83.8% of the public don't know the philosophies or measures for judicial reform. Taiwan president Tsai I. W. ate her words and avoided "judicial reform" issue in her National Birthday speech.

udn.com/news/story/7339/5814846?from=udn-catebreaknews_ch2

★ China Times, editorial, 2021-10-14: Taiwan's judiciary should not be an accomplice for the stranglehold on freedom of speech. chinatimes.com/opinion/20211011003202-262101?chdtv

★ UDN, 2021-2-26: The results of a satisfaction survey conducted by National Chung Cheng University on public security shows 2.5% poll respondents are "very satisfied" with "judges fairly and impartially conduct trials of criminal cases" , 24.2% are "satisfied", 41.9% are "unsatisfied", and 31.3% are "very unsatisfied".

udn.com/news/story/7321/5279400

FTV: Taiwan's bigeest judicial scandel of the century, CTN: Taiwan judiciary crashes

★ While typing in Taiwan's biggest rotten case ― "Apple Daily, 1-19-2021:rotten & stinky judiciary shakes Taiwan to the core" and "China Times, 1-19-2021: Taiwan judiciary crashes" etc, pro. hacker's attacks came, therefore, there's no other choices but to paste hard-copy jpg as above instead of typing in all of them. ps: see what they did as above (upper left side)

pic. left: Formosa TV news, 1-19-2021: "Taiwan's biggest judiciary scandal of the century", pic. right: Formosa TV news, 1-19-2021: The corruption case is an international joke !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziv67-PbtHo

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★ United Daily 2-11-2021, editorial: Taiwan grand justice was again on knees to political power / They declare guilty before trial by free evaluation of evidence through inner conviction, weaken Separation of powers and check of balance, don't dare to open a constitutional court session, therefore become "Patron saint of political power". https://udn.com/news/story/7338/5247338

★ USA Country Reports on Human Rights practices at 3-11-2020: Some political commentators and academics, publicly questioned the impartiality of judges and prosecutors involved in high profile, politically sensitive cases. Judicial reform advocates pressed for greater public accountability, reforms of the personnel system, and other procedural improvements.
★ USA Country Reports on Human Rights practices at 3-13-2019 and 4-20-2018 both pointed out that Taiwan's justice ministry was insufficiently independent and conducted politically motivated investigations of politicians. ★ read doubtful legal cases in English, in Chinese ★ justice cartoons

	World Justice Project 2020, Rule of Law Index www.worldjusticeproject.org/rule-of-law-index/country/2020
	Absence of Corruption: No.3 Singapore, No. 7 New Zealand, No.8 Hong Kong, No.13 Japan, No. 14 Australia, No.28 S. Korea, No. 41 Malaysia Criminal justice: No. 6 Singapore, No. 9 Japan, No.11 Australia, No.13 NZ, No.14 Hong Kong, No.18 S. Korea, No. 38 Malaysia Civil Justice: No. 6 Singapore, No.9 Japan, No. 10 NZ, No.11 Hong Kong, No.13 S. Korea, No.14 Australia, No.35 Malaysia Taiwan is not included

	Heritage Org. Judicial Effectiveness, 2021 Index of Economic Freedom (heritage.org/index/ )
	Singapore score 90.8, Australia 90.0 , New Zealand 80.5, Japan 75.5, Taiwan 72.9, China 71.5, Malaysia 70.5 Government Integrity NZ 95.3, Singapore 93.2, Australia 89.8, Japan 82.0, Taiwan 74.5

	OECD, OECD Data, "Trust in government" indicator 2021 (Trust in government refers to the share of people who report having confidence in the national government.) , https://data.oecd.org/gga/trust-in-government.htm New Zealand 62.9%, Korea 44.8%, Australia 44.6%, Japan 42.3%

★ The Apple Daily, Nov. 2, 2020, editorial : (tw.appledaily.com/headline/20201101/NI6TYHSBLVADXO37NO3KMBAS2E/) Taiwan's judicial system keeps treating the power and the rich with different standard, which crashes the public's trust on Taiwan's judiciary. (頻頻打擊司法公信力的「權貴減罪公式」一再上演)
★ The Apple Daily, Dec. 7, 2020, (https://tw.appledaily.com/forum/20201207/XDWVJS4BOBGYFHBWI23KR77OEI/ 林孟皇): Taiwan's judges and prosecutors' always "very low" misdeeds in the past (素行不良的行徑) are hard to find similar case in advanced legal countries; furthermore, recently some famous attorneys also violated work ethics, the overall performance by law people certainly fails to win public trust.
★ United Daily 8-20-2020, editorial: The Grand Justice of Taiwan has made itself to be the ruling party's "affiliate organization". https://udn.com/news/story/7338/4818831?from=udn-catehotnews_ch2
★ United Daily 1-8-2020, editorial: The ruling party has been good at collectively dividing the spoils ... the judicial system and investigation gov. have been obsequious and dared not to investigate the power and the richness (brief).

★ The Apple Daily, 9-13-2020, editorial, opinion : The dark networks those wealthy businessmen created can make the administration, the parliament, the Control Yuan and the judicial system to take care of the 'missions' they gave, e.g., the over-the-counter (OTC) stock and Interest Arbitrage Transaction are good tools to control the officials. Taiwan's judicial reform has not achieved the goal. https://tw.appledaily.com/headline/20200912/XRWWTEZPLBGARBFFHQVXMYCH2Q/'; https://tw.appledaily.com/forum/20200912/NAQP67HBRRAP5LZ3ZW4AFWTAEQ/ Taiwan judicial reform has not reached planned performance; Taiwanese are not willing to wait any longer for a trusty justice.

★ The Apple Daily, 5-10-2020, editorial : Some survey shows near 80% Taiwanese do not trust justice, even Judicial Yuan's survey showed 60+ % Taiwanese do not trust justice.

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★ WEF: Taiwan "judicial Independence" was ranked No. 13 among Asia & Pacific countries

	WEF (World Economic Forum) Judicial independence 2019 rankings , The Global Competitiveness Report
Asian country rankings	No.1 New Zealand 89.2(score) 2(world rank), No.2 Japan 86.5 5, No.3 Hong Kong 84.1 8, No.4 Australia 82.9 10, No.5 Singapore 77.4 14, No.6 Saudi Arabia 77.1 16, No. 7 UAE 75.4 20, No.8 Qatar 73.3 23, No.9 US 70.4 25, No.10 Jordan 69, No. 11 Malaysia 68.7, No. 12 Kuwait 59.5 , No.13 Taiwan 59.4 , No. 14 China 58.2
link	www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_TheGlobalCompetitivenessReport2019.pdf
ps	WEF Judicial independence 2017/2018 rankings : China's rank was better than Taiwan's, both are at about same level

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★ Liberty Times 4-30-2020: The crux of Taiwan legal system's problem is its party-state system. Judicial reform just failed because the judicial govt. rejected jury system and dual system (jury system -assessor system), now the structure remains and the judges still hold the power of judgment.
★ CTS TV news, 7-10-2019: National Chung Cheng university's survey shows that 80.9% Taiwanese don't trust the judges, only 32.3% nationals are satisfied with prosecutors.
★ The Apple Daily, 5-10-2020, editorial : Some survey shows near 80% Taiwanese do not trust justice, even Judicial Yuan's survey showed 50+ % Taiwanese do not trust the judges.
★ The Apple Daily, 5-8-2020: The practice and process of Taiwan's judicial reform is at least 10-20 years behind Japan's or Korea's. (林裕順／警察大學刑事系教授)
★ The United Daily, 5-10-2020, editorial : Grand justice of supreme court ignored Pan-Green Coalition's (黨產會，中選會、促轉會，甚至內政部和其他中央政府機關) violation of the law, such as selective enforcement 、trespassing of private goods, auditing non-governmental organization even beyond the legal empowered bottom line ...

★ The United Daily, 10-31-2020, https://udn.com/news/story/7321/4977543

Taiwan's judiciary spends lots of money on advertising themselves, but, the truth us Taiwan's justice always made a detour whenever encountering the power and the rich people. (司法砸錢宣傳遇權貴卻轉彎) The Supreme Court (最高法院大法庭) has many cases to solve, but no one wants to touch sensitive issues.

★ The United Daily, 7-14-2020, udn.com/news/story/7339/4699302
Taiwan's president has never talked about anti-corruption, in recent years, the prosecutors and investigation gov. have not solved any big corruption cases, unlike lots of crack-downs in old days, instead, they focus on New National Security cases. No wonder Taiwan president insists abolishing Special Investigation Division (SPD) .

★ The Liberty Times, 7-1-2020 ( Avoid judicial monsters ) : The main reason that the public do not trust the justice is lacking of external supervision (外部監督力量) and hence quite many controversial legal judgments were out there。https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/society/paper/1383385

★ The China Times, 5-27-2020 : The public trust on Taiwan's prosecutors was suffered severe injuries from the Minister's "guides" and "leads" (部長下指導棋重傷檢察公信力)
https://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/20200527000524-260118

★ The United Daily, , 5-16-2020, https://udn.com/news/story/121092/4567513 (從人權到新威權變調的司法正義)

The ruling party DPP has been more "authoritarian" than the way "authoritarian" government in old days was, no wonder the first thing the public have not satisfied with is the judicial reform. Many question the judicial system was reduced to be the government's tool ― to strengthen monitoring the public, and many worries, their political opponents (過去四年許多作為卻比過去威權更威權，立法、執法上不斷加強對人民的監控，司法不斷被質疑淪為掌權者工具，司法改革卻是人民最不滿意的重中之重 )

★ The Liberty Times, 7-1-2020 劍青檢改：Taiwan's Control Yuan was reduced to political "hit-man". https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/society/paper/1383386