Ming Chuan University Department of Criminal Justice

Wang, Po-Chi associate professor was interviewed by United Daily News	2020/5/20

Implement the Secretary-General's Reform Policy ... Narrow the gap and let the law speak the language 2020-05-16 00:07 United Daily News / Reporter Lin Mengjie / Taipei Report President Tsai Ing-wen will enter the second term, reviewing the Tsai government ’s judicial reforms over the past four years, unable to be affirmed by the public, and having low judicial trust; scholars point out that Tsai ’s government has let political power intervene in judicial personnel, which is most criticized. Policies and strengthening education on the rule of law are the topics of Tsai Ing-wen's second term. Fu-Dian Li, a professor at the Faculty of Law of the Cultural University, pointed out that people only need to be fair and fair, and judicial personnel must not be political in order to maintain judicial independence. However, after the Cai government took office, the appointment of the head of the judiciary and the judge was questioned by the outside world. Vigorously clean up dissidents, personnel transfers are contaminated with a strong political color, when personnel involvement is politically intervened, shake judicial independence, how can the people trust the justice? In addition, the government over-hyped the administrative capacity to obtain public opinion, including expressing opinions on individual cases, and seriously allowing the administration to intervene in the administration of justice. The Cai government promoted judicial reform, but it was only a means of "perfunctory public opinion." I want people to think that justice "does things", but they can't afford to debate. Fu-Dian Li gave an example. The recent clamoring national participation in the trial system was promoted by the former President Ma Ying-jeou. The political party rotation ended without success. He believes that whether the trial system or the jury system is a gradual elimination system in the world, but Cai The government used public opinion to promote participation in the trial and harmed the rights of the people. Wang, Po-Chi Associate Professor of the Department of Criminal Justice at Ming Chuan University believes that Taiwan ’s traditional society follows the ideology of reporting, and the public expects that justice can embody "killer dies", "return teeth to teeth, and eyes to eyes", but this is not the case with modern legal thoughts. Not as expected, there will be cognitive dysfunction. Wang, Po-Chi said that judges often say that the reasons are written in the verdict, but the verdict and legal language are too difficult for the public to understand. "Mistaken understandings due to incomprehension" have caused the gap between judicial and public expectations today. He believes that the government promotes judicial reform, but no matter how good the policy is, the public will be in vain. Reducing the cold words and numbers and "letting the law speak the language" can narrow the gap between the judiciary and the public. Liao Jianyu, president of the Lianjiang District Court of Fujian, said that Tsai Ing-wen once agreed with the then chairman of the Judges Association, Xu Shifeng, that judicial reform should be "slow and firm" as symbolized by the tortoise under the stone pillars of the US Supreme Court. Judicial trust is not overnight. Fortunately, the first four years to complete the legal basis, "how to implement" is the next focus.

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