Platform launched to aid lay judgesBy Jason Pan / Staff reporterJudicial reform advocates yesterday launched a “National Judge Information Platform” to provide guidance and assist people who become part of a proposed lay judge system. The platform has compiled case documents gathered from district courts and would add feedback from participating lay judges to add to assessments by observers and legal practitioners, Judicial Reform Foundation chairman Lin Yung-sung (林永頌) said. Photo: Fang Pin-chao, Taipei TimesThe legislature in July last year passed the National Judge Act (國民法官法), setting 2023 as the start of citizen participation as lay judges in criminal cases, with the bench to consist of six lay and three career judges. “We opposed the lay judge system while the changes were being discussed,” Lin said. However, as the legislature has passed the act to adopt the lay judge system, the public has to go along with it, he said.

Source: Taipei Times March 05, 2021 15:56 UTC