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Taiwan and Slovakia yesterday signed an agreement on judicial cooperation in civil and commercial matters, the first of its kind signed by Taiwan with an EU country.
The pact was signed during a ceremony at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ in Taipei by Representative to Slovakia David Lee (李南陽) and his Slovakian counterpart, Martin Podstavek.
The event was witnessed by a visiting Slovakian delegation led by Slovak National Council Deputy Speaker Milan Laurencik, as well as Minister of Foreign Affairs Joseph Wu (吳釗燮) and Minister of Justice Tsai Ching-hsiang (蔡清祥).
Wu described the agreement as another “extraordinary milestone” in bilateral ties that gives
The Ministry of Justice has introduced a new system that allows defendants who the police consider to have committed minor offenses and are not required to post bail to deliver statements via teleconference instead of being escorted to a prosecutors’ office.
Minister of Justice Tsai Tsing-hsiang (蔡清祥) had commissioned the Department of Prosecutorial Affairs to create a system to cut down on expenses and to save judiciary personnel time and effort.
Those who fall under the new system include drunk drivers who have not caused injury or death, or people who have illegally occupied someone’s property, confessed to using narcotics, turned themselves