Judicial Yuan head promoting fake reform, group saysBy Jason Pan / Staff reporterThe Taiwan Jury Association and other legal experts yesterday accused Judicial Yuan President Hsu Tzong-li (許宗力) of promoting “fake judicial reforms” by pushing a “lay judge system” instead of adopting a jury system. They do not trust judges because they believe their judgements are influenced by politics and money — “two major problems that have long plagued Taiwan’s justice system,” Cheng told a news conference in Taipei. Taiwan Jury Association members and other legal experts hold a news conference in Taipei yesterday to call for a jury system instead of the lay judge system proposed by Judicial Yuan President Hsu Tzong-li. They questioned Hsu’s “positive” talk about judicial reforms, which he said have achieved a lot, with public trust in the justice system increasing. He added that “political intervention was very prevalent during the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) authoritarian regime, which meddled in the justice system,” he said.

Source: Taipei Times March 18, 2020 15:56 UTC