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Court finds grounds to allow international same-sex marriages
03/04/2021 11:11 PM
Taiwanese gay rights activist Chi Chia-wei (祁家威) / CNA file photo
Taipei, March 4 (CNA) The Taipei High Administrative Court on Thursday revoked a decision by a household registration office not to permit a same-sex marriage involving a foreign national from a country in which such marriages are illegal, and proposed alternate legal grounds on which the marriage could be performed.
In the case in question, Taipei s Daan District Household Registration Office refused to permit the marriage of Taiwanese gay rights activist Chi Chia-wei (祁家威) and his Malaysian partner when they attempted to do so on May 24, 2019.
High court upholds ruling in OBI Pharma insider trading case
01/26/2021 03:44 PM
A Taiwan High Court spokesperson holds a press conference on the ruling. CNA photo Jan. 26, 2021
Taipei, Jan. 26 (CNA) The Taiwan High Court on Tuesday upheld a lower court s not-guilty ruling in an insider trading case involving OBI Pharma Chairman Michael Chang (張念慈) and four other company executives.
The high court upheld the Shilin District Court s ruling in June 2019 that there was insufficient evidence showing that Chang, general manager Amy Huang (黃秀美), former vice chair Hsu Yo-gung (許友恭), research and development director Yu Cheng-te (游丞德) and administration division manager Liao Tsung-chih (廖宗智) committed insider trading.
Sex offender post-sentence mandatory therapy mostly constitutional : court
12/31/2020 10:30 PM
The Constitutional Court. CNA photo Dec. 31, 2020
Taipei, Dec. 31 (CNA) Taiwan s Constitutional Court on Thursday declared that current laws allowing convicted sex offenders to be held in a designated facility for therapy after completing their sentence are mostly constitutional.
However, the court ruled it unconstitutional that the laws do not give convicted sex offenders a chance to express their opinion before making them undergo inpatient treatment after completing their prison term.
The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) should also ensure such therapy is undertaken as a form of rehabilitation rather than a punishment, it said. Currently the only such facility in Taiwan is inside Taichung Prison.
Executives involved in labor fund scandal freed on bail
12/23/2020 01:03 PM
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Taipei, Dec. 23 (CNA) A Taipei court on Tuesday rejected a prosecutors request to detain four executives of an asset management firm suspected of manipulating stock prices in a labor fund bribery case and ordered them released on bail due to insufficient evidence.
After questioning the suspects, the Taipei District Prosecutors Office filed a request early Tuesday morning to detain Uni-President Assets Management Corp. Vice President Chueh Chih-chang (闕志昌), managers Sun Ming-cheng (孫民承) and Kuo Shi-ching (郭士慶), and analyst Yu Jian-yeh (俞建業).