Judicial Yuan President Hsu Tzong-li (許宗力) last year issued a directive to the heads of courts at all levels nationwide that they should supervise the rulings of individual judges, selected at random every month, and provide guidance on whether to revise their rulings.
The idea was to improve the quality of judgements.
Judges expressed their objections on the Judicial Yuan’s online Judges’ Forum. Most were opposed to the system, one of the few occasions that there has been agreement among judges across the board on an issue.
They criticized the policy, saying that it would influence the promotion of judges and affect the
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Huang Kuo-shu (黃國書) on Oct. 17 confirmed a report that he had been an informant for the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) authoritarian regime when he was a student and had spied on dissidents. Huang was initially outed in a report by the Chinese-language Liberty Times (the Taipei Times’ sister newspaper), published the same day.
DPP cofounder Chiang Peng-chien (江鵬堅) has also been implicated after being accused of having worked as an undercover agent of the Ministry of Justice’s Investigation Bureau, and there has been further speculation that lawyers defending dissidents rounded up and tried by the
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