TAIPEI DOME: Civic officials were among 31 people charged with bribery in several public projects, although Farglory Group said it believes its founder did nothing illegalBy Chang Wen-chuan, Hsu I-ping and Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporters, with staff writer
By Wu Cheng-feng and Jason Pan / Staff reportersLocal judicial administrations have compiled lists containing the names of 131,990 people in total who qualify as citizen judges to preside over cases from next year, Judicial Yuan Disciplinary Court Head Judge Peng Hsing-ming （彭幸鳴） said on Thursday as the judicial system is preparing for a far-reaching update to its proceedings.
The nationalization of Taiwan’s 17 irrigation associations under the Agency of Irrigation in July 2020 did not contravene the Constitution, the Constitutional Court ruled yesterday.
The move did not contravene the principle of legal clarity, nor people’s freedom of association, guaranteed by Article 14 of the Constitution, said Judicial Yuan President Hsu Tzong-li (許宗力), who heads the Constitutional Court.
The nationalization process did not infringe on property rights, nor did it violate the non-retroactivity principle or the principle of legitimate expectation, Hsu said.
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators said the nationalization of the irrigation associations under the Irrigation Act (農田水利法) was disproportionate and
‘NO BREACHES’: The Cabinet got backing from the Constitutional Court after it said that the former irrigation association system was not based on constitutional rightsBy Wu Cheng-feng, Chang Wen-chuan and Jake Chung / Staff reporters, with staff writer
After more than five years of litigation, a government foreign service official has been sentenced to more than eight years in jail for corruption in a student visa bribery scandal at Taiwan’s representative office in Vietnam, as the High Court rejected his final appeal on Tuesday.
The court upheld Hsiao Yu-wen’s (蕭裕文) convictions on multiple charges in a second retrial, handing him eight years and eight months in prison, confiscating all illegal profits pertaining to the case and rescinding his civil rights for four years. The sentence was reduced by two months from the verdict in the first retrial.
The latest verdict