Judiciary vows toughness in Weng case
STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS: The Human Resource Review Committee said the alleged misdeeds of 25 judges suspected of corruption took place too long ago
By Jake Chung / Staff writer, with CNA
The investigation into the Weng Mao-chung (翁茂鍾) case would hold all judicial personnel involved accountable to the strictest interpretation of the law, Judicial Yuan President Hsu Tzong-li (許宗力) said yesterday, while pledging more action against misconduct to uphold the judiciary’s credibility.
Hsu pledged to investigate the few judges who might be contravening laws to protect the work of honest judges and uphold the dignity of the judiciary.
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Council reviews Aboriginal hunting rights
TRADITIONS: The Council of Grand Justices is to issue an interpretation within one month on whether laws limiting hunting and firearms infringe on Aboriginal rights
By Wu Cheng-feng and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter,
with staff writer and CNA
Oral arguments began on Tuesday in a case that is to determine whether laws restricting hunting and firearms infringe on the constitutional rights of Aborigines.
The case stems from the August 2013 arrest of Bunun hunter Tama Talum, also known as Wang Guang-lu (王光祿), after he was found in possession of two dead protected animals and a shotgun.
The man from Taitung County’s Haiduan Township (海端) said during a trial that he hunted the animals for his ailing 94-year-old mother.
2021/03/09 17:45 Talum s supporters rally outside Constitutional Court after March 9 hearing. Talum s supporters rally outside Constitutional Court after March 9 hearing. (Taiwan News photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) The Constitutional Court on Tuesday (March 9) held a debate on the constitutionality of convictions of indigenous hunters for using firearms to hunt protected animals in eastern Taiwan. A number of indigenous activists spent the night demonstrating outside the Judicial Yuan, which houses the court, and performed a ritual in the early morning hours leading up to the hearing. One of the petitioners, an indigenous Bunun man in his 60s named Tama Talum (Wang Kuang-lu, 王光祿), was sentenced to three and a half years in 2013 for violating the Act Controlling Guns, Knives and Ammunition and the Wildlife Conservation Act. He had killed a goatlike Formosan serow and a Reeves muntjac, a min