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▍Outline of Policy Plans for 2025

Approved by the Judicial Yuan at its 210th meeting on May 29, 2024

The Judicial Yuan maintains the ideology that the judiciary is for the people, we will push forward with various reforms and the new system of litigation. The year 2025 will be the year that we will continue to promote important judicial reform bills, to review and amend in a timely manner the relevant sub-laws of the constitutional litigation law in the light of the practical operation of the constitutional litigation system; continue to promote the new system of citizen judges, optimize the software and hardware facilities of the Citizen Judges' Court to create a venue for citizens to participate in trials with peace of mind; study the Civil Procedure Law to strengthen the effectiveness of trials, implement the new system for commercial matters and labor incident law system, promote the Alternative Dispute Resolution systems to effective mitigation of litigation, implement a consultation platform for handling juvenile cases and developing a diversified handling mechanism. Create a friendly judicial environment, and continue to improve the development and training of legal professionals, increase the supervision and termination of unfit judges, expand the diversity of judges, and perfect our judicial personnel system. Actively research and develop various judicial systems and promote academic and practical exchanges; in addition, continue to improve the judicial information environment, optimize convenience services, combine various social resources, to improve the effectiveness of the provided services. Strengthen interactive communication and promote the concept of judicial reform, create diverse methods of communication between the judiciary and the society, and increase the effectiveness of judicial policy promotion so that all of our reforms would be felt by the people and meet with society's expectations to improve the people’s trust and approval of the judiciary. The following descriptions are the Judicial Yuan's outline of the policy plans for 2025:

▍(I) Constitutional Litigation

(1) Based on the needs of the practical implementation of the Constitutional litigation system, to timely review and amend the Constitutional Court Procedure Act and related sub-laws

In response to the practical operation needs of the constitutional litigation system, continue to review the necessity of amending the Constitutional Court Procedure Law, trial rules and related sub-laws.
Analyze the statistical data of the Constitutional Court and to review the overall effectiveness of the constitutional litigation system in a rolling manner, in order to serve as a reference for the review of the system.

(2) Constitutional litigation procedures should be open and transparent, and measures should be taken for the convenience of the public

In line with the statutes and the practical operation of the Constitutional Court, update the examples of constitutional litigation pleadings in a timely manner, so as to facilitate the public's access to constitutional litigation.
Provide online progress inquiries for parties of constitutional litigation cases and the publication of the full list of cases under review in the public pleadings form and the case lists of cases to facilitate the parties prompt inquire on the merger and progress of cases.
Actively publicize the case information of verbal debates or briefing sessions.
The oral debates and pronouncements of decisions of the Constitutional Court will be broadcast live in an appropriate manner and real-time sign language interpretation services will be provided to protect the rights of people with disabilities to access justice.
A special section for amicus curiae is set up on the Constitutional Court's website so that people, institutions, or groups other than the parties can immediately inquire about the time limit for applying permission to serve as amicus curiae from the Constitutional Court.
The interpretation case files awarded under the old system of Grand Judges, which have been archived for 25 years, will be listed as national archives, and will continuously be transferred to the National Archives Administration National Development Council for public access.
Provide statistical information services on cases acceptance and conclusion results on the Constitutional Court website to facilitate public inquiries about the practical operation of constitutional litigation.
Optimize the Constitutional Court's statistical information system, enrich the collection, analysis and provision of statistical data, and improve statistical information services.

(3) Optimize various information tools to facilitate constitutional litigation proceedings and enhance the efficiency of trials

Based on the needs of practical operation of the Constitutional Court, cooperate with the reconstruction of the Judicial Yuan's electronic litigation document (including online prosecution) service platform (hereinafter referred to as the e-Services Platform), the trial operation system will be updated in a timely manner; integrate case information on the Constitutional Court's website, and improve various search functions on the Constitutional Court's website, to provide a more convenient and speedy environment for the clients to utilize the e-Services Platform.
Optimize the e-Services Platform, increase the willingness to use it, and continue to promote and encourage parties, relevant organizations, experts, scholars and amici curiae to make more use of the e-Services Platform for transmitting litigation documents, so as to facilitate the conduct of litigation proceedings and enhance trial efficiency.

(4) Provide the necessary support for trial assistance manpower

In accordance with the practical operation needs of the system, to timely revise the operating manuals and drafts of official documents for associate justices and clerks.
Regularly conduct practical training on constitutional litigation to enhance the professional knowledge of auxiliary trail and administrative staff to facilitate the improvement of trial efficiency.

(5) Promote international judicial exchanges among the Constitutional Courts

Actively participate in judicial exchanges with international constitutional courts, translate ROC (Taiwan)’s Constitutional Court judgments, foreign constitutional court judgments, compile and publish annual reports of ROC (Taiwan)’s Constitutional Courts in English, and enhancing the timeliness of the content of the English-language website of the Constitutional Court, so as to enhance the visibility of ROC (Taiwan)’s Constitutional Court in international constitutional adjudication practice.
Gradually translate and edit the interpretations of the Justices of the Court of Justice and the decisions of the Constitutional Court of ROC (Taiwan), and provide them to the CODICES database of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe (European Commission for Democracy and the Rule of Law), so as to enhance international judicial exchanges between the Constitutional Court of ROC (Taiwan) and the various constitutional bodies of the world, and to promote the study of cross-national comparative constitutional law.
Hold the academic seminars for Grand Justice every year to enhance the Constitutional review process exchanges between the practice of the Constitutional Court and the academia.
Cooperate with public appointments and foreign groups’ visits to the Constitutional Court, and send personnel to explain the procedures for hearing cases in the Constitutional Court so that the public can understand the practical operation of the Constitutional Court.

▍(II)Trial Administration

(1) Strengthen various levels of court, enhance the results of trials

Implement centralized review of civil cases and strengthen the fact-finding function of the court of first instance, so that the court of first instance is the central fact-finding trial; the court of second instance will heavily restrict further proceedings; the court of third instance will be strictly review of the law, and the appeals would be based on permission by the court.
Promote and implement strict rules of evidence in criminal trials so that the court of first instance would be the fact-finding court and continue to strengthen the court’s fact-finding function. The court of third instance would be the review of law court that would help quickly finalize important cases to increase the efficiency of the litigation process.
Promote a modern, reasonable, and effective administrative litigation system, build a solid first instance administrative court as the central fact-finding trial, Supreme Administrative Court being the review of law trial, focusing on the important legal interpretations and applications, and consolidating various legal opinions.
Continue to promote the Grand Chamber system, and giving full play to the function of the court of final appeal as a unified source of legal advice and continuity of law.
Supervise and encourage all levels of the court to properly handle all cases and related administrations to protect the people’s rights.
Supervise and encourage the Disciplinary Courts to quickly and effectively deal with cases related to the disciplinary actions of the public servants and judges, prosecutors and cases concerning the duties of a judge to maintain judicial dignity and protect the rights of civil servants.
Supervise Intellectual Property Courts of the Intellectual Property Court and the Commercial Court and the ordinary courts to handle the intellectual property litigation cases efficiently to protect the rights and interests of the people.
Implement the panel system to increase judicial discussion to improve the quality of the judgment.

(2) Perfect the legal system, increase judicial efficiency

Discuss the amendment of the Code of Civil Procedure to improve trial efficiency, to promote the fair use of judicial resources and to actualize a pyramid structure for the litigation process.
Promote the procedure for labor-related cases to establish a professional, efficient, and convenient special procedure for labor cases.
Implement the legal system of commercial case adjudication, and establish a rapid, appropriate and professional commercial case adjudication mechanism to quickly resolve commercial disputes.
Discuss the amendment for the Act of Custody, to ensure the rights of the people under custody.
Discuss the amendment for the Compulsory Enforcement Act to perfect the compulsory enforcement process.
Promote the completion of the legislative process for the draft amendment to the Bankruptcy Law (amended bill to be renamed as “Debt Liquidation Act”) to build a complete and effective debt liquidation regime.
Continue to study the relevant sub-laws of notarization, to perfect the regulations governing the difference of duties between the public notaries and court notaries to make the notary system more complete.
Study and amend the Criminal Procedure Law to create a solid fact-finding system.
Promote the system of criminal victim protection and litigation participation, by granting the victims the right to participate in the procedure and protection measures, strengthen his/her subjectivity in litigation procedures and safeguarding his/her dignity and needs, so as to actualize the protection of their rights.
Continue to renew the sentencing information system, invite experts and scholars to study the current sentencing factors of various types of criminal cases and their influence on the degree of punishment to facilitate practical sentencing reference.
Improve the sentencing legislation so as to promote fairness, appropriateness, transparency and reasonable predictability in sentencing, and continue to study the " Draft Criminal Cases Proper Sentencing law ".
Discuss the amendment for the Criminal Compensation Act, to strengthen the protection of the rights and interests of the victims.
Promote and improve a solid first-instance system for administrative litigation, to implement the division of labor at trial level, to enhance judicial efficiency and protect the rights and interests of the people.
Study the enactment of the "Tax Administrative Matters Trial Act" to enhance the effectiveness of tax litigation and protect the rights and interests of the people.
Study the amendment of the relevant law and regulations of the Public Functionaries Discipline Act, to perfect the discipline regime.
Formulate and amend important laws and regulations of the juvenile justice system, such as to add the requirement of obliterating information on juvenile cases, the judicial relief system for juveniles in juvenile detention, the principle of juvenile sentencing, the diversified treatment of protection and punishment, the enforcement period and the conversion mechanism, etc., as the direction of the amendment of the law on the handling of juvenile matters, and to amend the relevant sub-laws and complementary measures; and to continue to implement the new system of juvenile law amendment (e.g., the first step of administrative counseling for juveniles exposed to risk, the procedure before referral, protection of the rights of the victim and participation in the procedure, the method of record and management of relevant information on juvenile cases), and to amend the relevant sub-laws and complementary measures as necessary for practical operation, in order to conform to the purposes of the various human rights treaties, and also to safeguard the sound and self-growth of juveniles and to strengthen the protection of the victims.
Continue to implement the pilot plan for the new version of the pre-trial juvenile investigation report and complete the functions of the pre-trial investigation system; supervise and evaluate the implementation of the pilot plan on risk management of juvenile protection and discipline by the courts, and continue to revise the content of the plan on a rolling basis; plan and implement the system of diversion of investigations and protection to enhance the effectiveness of professional division of labor between pre-trial juvenile investigations and protection encounters, and examine the feasibility of evaluating the integration of observation and protection; and establish mechanisms for selection, evaluation, professional training, practice and certification of facilitators of juvenile investigation (protection) officers for pre-trial investigations, rehabilitation, and transition counseling of rehabilitation procedures; and continue to complete the revision of the reference manual for the juvenile investigation (protection) officer's pre-trial investigation and rehabilitation, etc., and provide guidance for the handling of related business by the juvenile investigation (protection) officers.
Continue to review and study the laws and regulations relating to family matters, study on the de-litigation of family property rights litigation matters, improve the system of family investigators and procedural supervisors, implement due process guarantees, seek the best interests of minor children, and deal with family disputes appropriately and quickly.
Continue to promote the Mental Health Law expert participation system and related supporting measures in accordance with the Judicial Yuan's Mental Health Law Expert Participation System Promotion and Implementation Plan, complete the study of regulations amendment (revision) and pleadings(example draft), and complete the deployment of software and hardware equipment for remote adjudication between the courts and designated mental healthcare institutes, establish a cross-domain (hospitals and courts) e-litigation system through judicial digitization, and achieve the goals of electronic file management, video court adjudication, digitization of court records, paperless adjudication documents, and real-time judicial statistics, in order to grasp the time efficiency of adjudication. In addition, it also plans for the selection method of trial participants, strengthen professional training, and link mechanisms such as legal aid and procedural supervisors, in order to establish a speedy, professional, and comprehensive expert trial system through the division of labor and collaboration of inter-professional integration and incorporation of diverse perspectives in order to safeguard the rights and interests of people with disabilities.
Continue to promote the specialization of judges in trial by strengthening the expert consultation system and efficiently evaluate professional or special cases to properly conclude the cases.
Duly review the current situations regarding the need of establishing specialized courts through evaluating the complication, specification, and the overall judicial resources needed for these specialized court to actualize specialization in judges and implement judicial specialization to its fullest to promote judicial efficiency.
Establish a mechanism for the selection of juvenile judges with professional qualifications, amend relevant laws and regulations, implement a mechanism for the reappointment of juvenile judges with professional priority and for the allocation of court services, enhance the functions of juvenile judges and presidents, and complete a mechanism for the development of professional training, in order to optimize the juvenile judiciary and protect the rights and interests of the people in litigation.

(3) Implement the system of Citizen Judges, and optimize the environment for citizens to safely participate in trials

Timely review and amend the Citizen Judges Act and related sub-laws
Collect feedbacks or suggestions on practical operations, and amend the National Judges Law and related sub-laws on a rolling basis, and continue to improve the legal aspect.
Enhance the professional knowledge in court trial and administration
Regularly hold various types of education and seminars to strengthen the court's ability to handle cases with citizen participation in trials and various auxiliary skills; improve the standard operating procedures of the court's various procedures and enhance administrative efficiency.
Measures to Improve the System
a. Continue to optimize the hardware and software facilities of the Citizen Judges Court (including barrier-free facilities and guidelines) and expand the functions of the related information systems and websites.
b. Draw on the successful experiences of other countries, formulate comprehensive measures to protect and care for Citizen Judges to meet the needs of the public.
Enhance public awareness of and satisfaction with national participation in the judiciary
Continue to deepen the multi-faceted promotion in campuses, communities, institutions, civil society, etc., and use multiple media marketing channels to strengthen publicity and publicity about the rights and obligations of citizens to participate in trials, and promote it through cross-domain coordination and cooperation as well as through a dedicated website for national judges, provide the latest information in a timely manner to encourage the public to actively participate in the trial.
Research and evaluation of the system and promotion of exchanges
a. Continue to entrust experts and scholars to conduct special research on systemic and practical issues and court observations; encourage judges to independently conduct empirical observation and academic research on the citizen judges' system.
b. Invite foreign scholars and practical experts to visit Taiwan and go abroad to investigate citizen's participation in the trial system and learn from foreign practical experience.
c. The Committee for Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the citizen's Participation in the Trial System will continue to operate, collects and analyzes official statistics and questionnaire data on a case-by-case basis, conducts necessary research and studies, and submit a report on the proper evaluation of the system on a yearly basis.

(4) Promote alternative dispute resolution systems (ADR) to effectively decrease the incoming caseloads

Promote civil, family mediation, criminal transfer mediation and administrative litigation mediation affairs, and combine social resources and enhancing the mediators' professional knowledge and mediation skills. Emphasize on the protection of children and minorities as well as respecting gender equality and multicultural diversity so that all kinds of disagreements could be quickly and peacefully resolved to reduce incoming cases.
Establish a localized family mediation team, combining the resources of multiple services such as family service centers of each county (city) government stationed at the court, and domestic violence service offices, to develop child-centred family mediation and improve the effectiveness of mediation.
Develop a pilot family dispute triage program, combine educational and social administrative resources such as family consultation and family education centers, make timely referrals to relevant administrative service resources, and strengthen the professional functions of family mediators in dealing with the protection of the rights and interests of the disadvantaged such as domestic violence, minor children, and people with disabilities, etc., so as to enhance the professional efficacy of family mediation and promote the possibility of self-governance of disputes by the parties involved.
Establish diversified dispute resolution channels, so as to effectively reduce the sources of litigation and reasonably reduce the workload of judges.
Supervise district courts in effectively handling notarizing, registration, and lodgment and other non-litigation issues in improving judicial function, and supervise public notaries in effectively handling notarization matters to enhance the function of preventive justice.

(5) Enrich trial knowledge, increase the quality of trial

Enrich trial knowledge
a. Continue to maintain and enrich the trial information and datum of various functional categories under subject area on the Judicial Yuan’s website to provide consultation and professional knowledge to the judges.
b. Expand the information exchange platforms related to the information on trials and effectively use administrative resources to assist the judges in their case.
c. Continue to review and revise various case handling or business execution reference manuals, tools and sample drafts, provide the most updates information for reference to the judges and other judicial staff to improve the quality and effectiveness of the judgements.
Hold administrative seminar, legal conferences, and special topic forum
a. Hold civil, criminal, administrative litigation, intellectual property, juvenile, family, compulsory enforcement, bankruptcy, consumer debt liquidation, notary, non-litigation, lodgment, registration, and arbitration etc. related seminars, legal conferences, and special topic forums to retain new legal and practical knowledge from foreign judiciaries, communicate legal ideas, and exchange practical experience to enhance the judiciary’s ability to handle cases.
b. Hold forums, academic seminars and experience inheritance activities for judges of various trial courts.
c. Hold case review seminar or workshops to improve the understanding between the judiciary and other professionals to increase the knowledge of cases.
d. Hold seminars on humanistic knowledge, work stress adjustment, and emotion management for judges to broaden their horizons and help them relieve stress and maintain physical and mental balance.
Establishment of the Juvenile and Family Court Professional Curriculum Planning Committee (including the deliberation and design of the syllabus (including core competency education and training courses, teacher qualifications, etc.) to conduct deliberation on and design of new and in-service training of presiding judges and other auxiliary manpower (e.g., Juvenile Investigating (Protection) Officers, Family Investigating Officers, etc.).
Enhance on-the-job workshops
a. Hold on-the-job workshops or professional speeches for the judges and other related personnel.
b. Train professional personnel for juvenile, family, taxation, and intellectual property judicial trial.
c. Train professional personnel for the commercial court, labor law court and mediation.
d. Held a seminar on the theory and practice of duty court.
e. Organize on-the-job training or professional lectures on intellectual property litigation for judges and other relevant personnel.
f. Continue to consolidate the courts that handle similar legal issues and connect these courts through establishing exchange platforms to accomplish the exchange and sharing of regional resources.
g. Complete the selection mechanism for specialized juvenile courts(tribunals) and strengthen the mechanism for professional training to implement the one-track-two-track policy of optimizing juvenile justice.
Enhance pre-career workshops
a. Strengthen the pre-career workshops for the judges being selected.
b. Continue to host all kinds of pre-career workshops for various types of judicial personnel.
Conducting reassignment training and enhancing the training of new juvenile judges
a. to enhance the professional functions of juvenile court judges through professional training for reappointment.
b. to strengthen the professional training for new juvenile judges and encourage judges handling juvenile and family matters to obtain a professional certificate as a judge.

(6) Complete procedural protection, maintain judicial human rights

Urge the courts to strictly review the applications for communication surveillance and aggressively supervise its execution to protect the people's freedom of communication.
Enhance the ideology of protecting human rights in criminal proceedings to protect the human rights of defendants and also the rights of the victim.
Duly inspect and discuss laws and administrative measures, intense study method, to implement International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and Convention on the Rights of the Child to proclaim the ideology of protecting human rights.
Continue to supervise and urge the implementation of safe court appearance environment and measures, establish court-friendly courts, protect the judicial rights and interests of vulnerable groups such as children, juvenile, women, victims, and persons with disabilities, and create a pro-people justice system.
Strengthen the effectiveness of court digitization and remote hearings, continue to plan and promote relevant judicial policies and measures to protect the rights and interests of children, women, and people with disabilities, and cultivate the professionalism of different types of procedural supervisors, to protect the procedural rights of disadvantaged parties such as minor children and seriously ill patients, etc. and to enhance the effectiveness of the administration of justice.
Implement a consultative platform mechanism (three-tier liaison meeting) for handling juvenile incidents, assist in promoting the administrative counselling system and the optimization measures for juvenile correction education, and develop a multi-disciplinary mechanism to implement the principle of last resort in juvenile justice.
Improve the recommendation mechanism of various associations, and strengthen the training of process guardians and develop related courses, to protect the interests of the person under guardianship.
Establish an advanced version of the information operating system for investigation and protection and family investigation (including studying the feasibility of integrating or connecting the trial system), and establish relevant statistics and management and examination mechanisms, in order to enhance the professional knowledge and work efficiency of juvenile investigation (protection) officers and family matter investigation officers.
Assist in establishing lawyer's seminar and training to increase the lawyer's professional capabilities to protect litigating parties' rights.
Continue to supervise, review, and visit family services centers of courthouses in special municipality, county, and city government. Handle the funding that the service centers provide to other public organization; study the feasibility and funding subsidy by using the resources of the Family Service Centre for family matters in the Court of Second Instance, so as to protect the rights and interests of minor children.
Integrate expert resources to develop tools for handling cases related to the rights of children and adolescents, so as to implement due process in handling family matters.
Perfect the translation system to enhance the quality of court translating by protecting the litigation rights of people with hearing or speaking disabilities and language barrier.

▍(III) Judicial Administration

(1) Promote judicial reform and perfect judicial administration

Continue to plan and prepare for the establishment of the Northern Juvenile and Family Court, and plan to establish the Central and Eastern Juvenile and Family Court to implement the goal of specialization.
Implement the Judges Act and the Code of Conduct for Judges, maintain the independence of justice and ensure the people's right to a fair trial.
Optimize the case evaluation system and eliminate unqualified judges.
Promote decisions to be simplified and made to be more colloquial, to ensure people more understand justice.
Continue to cooperate with Judicial Yuan Human Rights, Minor Protection, and Gender Friendly Commission, to promote gender equality, child and juvenile protection policies and other related matters.
For protecting the best interests of minor children and the environment in which they grow up, advocate for cooperative parenting and combine administrative and social and political resources to develop feasible solutions for the implementation of regular tracking and care plan.
Establish a mechanism to link the courts with the local government's network of resources to enhance the effectiveness of appropriate handling of juvenile and family matters.
To formulate the regulations on the disclosure of judicial documents and improve the methods of disclosure and related concealment measures, so as to balance the conflict of legal interests between " the people's right to know" and "the right to privacy of personal information" and to achieve the goal of judicial openness and transparency.
To assess and plan the disclosure process and schedule of juvenile adjudications, the feasibility of establishing a common network for juvenile information, integrate data from the judicial and administrative sides of juvenile matters, and share the information under the principle of protecting the privacy and best interests of children, as well as to serve as a reference for planning and evaluating the policy on juveniles who are not in the juvenile justice system and for the improvement of the services and resources.

(2) Strengthen research and development, put into place efficient management

Field studies and academic exchange
a. Send personnel overseas to do field studies on trial practices, judicial administration systems, and court operation mechanism to provide references for future discussions in establishing related laws.
b. Visit, exchange and write publications with foreign, Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau area scholars and judges to provide comparative legal analysis and mutual legal assistance.
c. Sign judicial cooperation agreement or memorandum of understanding with foreign judicial entities and send or fund organization to attend or host international legal conferences, plan foreign judicial personnel to study in Taiwan, and promote the international exchanges with other judiciaries.
d. Invite foreign scholars or judges to Taiwan to give a speech or seminar to encourage judges to learn new information and keep up with the newest issues.
e. Strengthen the cooperation and exchange with domestic research institutions and university law schools by hosting joint academic seminar to improve the dialogue between academia and practitioners. Encourage courts to provide paths for judicial internship to cultivate outstanding judicial talents.
Research studies
a. Research various types of judicial systems, trials, and judicial administration to push forward judicial innovation.
b. Send judges to study abroad and do research on specific topics, learn of foreign related legal systems, improve professional knowledge, and broaden their horizons to increase international legal exchange.
Information Collection
a. Collect, compile, display and preserve important judicial historical materials, build and increase judicial historical database and collections, creating judicial cultural legacy.
b. Continuously push for cross-strait legal publications and journals to be gifted in exchange and increase the research of legal systems of Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and other countries. Collect and analyze related legal academic information to improve cross-strait and international legal exchanges.
c. Commission academic institutions with case studies to research related litigation systems and legal issues to provide references to practices.
Efficiency management
a. Implement self-discipline for judges to maintain the judicial ethics and dedication that would increase the positive imagery of the judiciary.
b. Improve the management of reviews for the annual policy plans and important policies to confirm that they are finished on time.
c. Properly handle each agency’s judicial administration and annual review.
d. Improve the quality of the presiding process, implement punctual court sessions, and enhance the public's trust on the judiciary.
e. Create a work seminar for the personnel working at the service center window, strengthen the professional knowledge and ability.
f. Continue to promote “Judicial Yuan Video-Conferencing Service Plan for Litigations in Courts of First and Second Instance” to combine district government’s resources and equipment for the application technology to allow the people in rural area to not have to physically go to court but could still consult in the litigation process to fulfill the idea that the judiciary is for the people.
g. Continue to promote the system of centralized electronic check-in, simplify the administrative processes of the courts, and provide fast convenient and modern service to the public.
h. Continue to observe judge's court sessions and spot checks on the respect and friendly services and works provided by the Single-Counter Consolidated Services, to create a friendly court environment.
i. Continue to study the alimony matter and use AI artificial intelligence to develop a trial calculation system with a view to focusing on the issues and reducing disputes.
j. Continue to collect and analyze issues related to the diversified selection mechanism in this country and overseas, and study the feasibility of updating the relevant laws and regulations.
k. Optimize the data construction and statistical analysis functions of the investigation and protection system and juvenile trial system, and gradually construct a juvenile justice database.
Hold different humanities seminars and art studies for personnel to enhance their cultural understanding and new insights.

(3) Strengthen communications and interactions to promote the judicial ideologies

Aggressively negotiate with the Legislative Yuan and other departments to pass various wills and the budget to expedite the process of judicial reform.
Strengthen the collection and analysis of important judicial public opinion, coordinate processing, and provide immediate responses to major public opinion; and maintain contact with the news media to provide accurate and timely judicial-related information to enable the public can understand important judicial policies and trends.
Through multi-media, actively promote various items of the judicial reform and services that offer citizens convenience so that the people can immediately receive news from the judiciary and protect their own interests.
Mix new media and social network platforms to continuously strengthen the diverse dialogue mechanism to improve the interaction with the public and through the spread of legal education by masses and allowing the people to participate in the formulation of policies, improve the effects of judicial policy and legal education promotion.
Invite people from all walks of life to visit the Judicial Yuan and its courts to actively pull each other closer and supervise all levels of the court to continue to conduct series of public meeting activities, to improve the visiting citizens' understanding of the current circumstances in our judiciary.
Continue to invite the women, children, elderly, handicap and other civilian organization to seminars for discussing the ongoing administration issues and exchange ideas and comments for future improvements and promote the effectiveness of the connection between the courts and the institutes and its resource sharing.

(4) Properly process citizen’s petition, implement legal assistance

Handle citizen's petition, the Control Yuan cases, and petition submitted to the Legislative Yuan. Duly provide related information to clarify the mistakes that people have about the judiciary and maintain the image of the judiciary.
Supervise the work of the Legal aid Foundation to maintain the quality of legal assistance and protect the right and interest of the people in litigation.

(5) Combine social resources, improve service efficiency

Combine volunteer service and educational resource to effectively use social human power to improve the effectiveness of the service to the people.
Promote the activity of juvenile and family volunteers, implement the concept of justice for the people, improve the professional training of juvenile and family volunteers and enhance the professional knowledge of volunteers, and to continue the spirit of volunteer service.

(6) Improve judicial environment, enhance judicial capabilities

Evaluate the need of the Judicial Yuan and all the courts in building, moving, renovating, or expanding their courthouse. Adjust and improve the office environment to provide the people with an excellent and convenient work and litigation environment.

▍(IV) General Administration

(1) Information Services

Application system:
a. Establish the Family Trial Participation Court Information System in response to the Mental Health Act.
b. Develop the function of automatically transferring cases of applying for payment orders to the electronic litigation procedures on the Supervisory Platform.
c. Strengthen the function of reporting family matters to the Department of Household Affairs of the Ministry of the Interior.
d. Optimize the legal system related to national judges.
e. Continue to strengthen the single login platform service for lawyers.
f. Study the previous case record form and continue to improve the national previous case information system.
g. Establish a regular communication platform with the Legal Affairs Department to promote the information related business between Departments.
h. Cooperate with the Fiscal Information Agency, Ministry of Finance, to update the fiscal and tax data transmission method (T-Road) and strengthen information security.
i. Enhance the performance and security of the intranet system of this Yuan and its affiliates by applying responsive design and modular architecture to build a website with real-time updating, easy-to-use interaction, expandability, and cross-platform browsing functions, and at the same time carry out centralized and unified management.
j. Increase the number of low-income users' inquiry sub-systems in the electronic gateway, reduce the amount of official correspondence between the courts and the social bureaus of counties and cities, to save energy and reduce carbon emissions, and enhance the efficiency of judges' adjudication
k. Continuously expand the content and maintaining the effective operation of this Yuan's official websites so that the official websites of various institutions affiliated to this Yuan can provide users with a good standard of service and website security.
l. Strengthen the promotion, education and training of the new version of electronic litigation documents (including online litigation) service platform, so as to increase the utilization rate of the service platform.
Information security:
a. Continuously implement the maintenance and operation of the backup system, to provide zero tolerance for data loss due to unplanned downtime, continuous data protection, anti-ransomware and better real-time restoration.
b. Continue to promote the introduction of zero-trust framework in the Judicial Yuan and its subordinate agencies to strengthen the information security of the Judicial Yuan and its affiliated institutions.
Environmental facilities:
a. Continue to replace old personal computers, mainframes and storage devices to create a stable hardware environment.
b. Provide the latest version of word processing software, cloud video conferencing software, personal computer operating system, host server operating system and a large number of legal database software licenses for the Judicial Yuan and its subordinate agencies.

(2) Legal Administration

Consolidate, coordinate, and inform other departments of legal administrative issues.
Update the information on judicial regulation so that it is correct and complete all the time; periodically update the newest of our Yuan’s regulations to be informed of regulatory changes.
Quickly spread the information on any changes made to central government agencies’ regulatory to make sure that the legal services are complying with the newest regulations.
Proclaim the newest judicial policy, regulations and changes, and provide important judicial information in a timely manner to help the judiciary, prosecution, counselors, and the society have positive interactions with each other.
Increase the synergy between judicial theory and practice, support the new judicial system with papers presented from the law or practitioner perspective to provide as reference to both the practitioner and researcher.

(3) Human Resources Administration

Promote judicial stress reduction and implement measures related to care for the physical and mental health of judges.
Expand the diverse employment of judges, recruit outstanding lawyers, prosecutors, academics and civil servants to be transferred to judges, so as to enrich the source of judges, and better meet the expectations of society for a pluralistic judiciary.
Improve the review of grades for assistant judges and establish an exclusive mentor system for assistant judges for probation service to improve on-the-job training, implement the selection and termination process for assistant and probationary judges.
Review the overall number of personnel positions in each department, adjust accordingly to budgetary needs, and evaluate human resources need to provide most for the trial supporting staff.
Implement the priority protection of the people's right to litigation and the right to relocation of judges to ensure the people's right to a speedy trial.
Handle the personnel distribution, hiring, termination, and transfer of the Judicial Yuan and its subordinate agencies to provide for the human resources need.
Improve on civil discipline by implementing measures that encourage the good and terminating the bad through applying the Judicial Duty Assessment Regulations and Public Functionaries Merit Evaluation Act on evaluating the judiciary and judicial staff.
Duly handle the retirement, compensation, and severance of the personnel of our Yuan and its subordinate agencies to take care of our retirees and compensate the relatives of our deceased personnel.
Improve the professional knowledge of our personnel, inspect human affairs administration, improve experience exchanges, and improve on the quality of services.
Continuously implement and promote employee assistance plans, and strengthen the prevention of sexual harassment and bullying in the workplace and build a friendly judicial workplace environment.

(4) Government Ethics Administration

Implement risk management, effectively understand the situation in each entity, improve preventative measures; increase public participation, design customized promotional materials and activities, engrain anti-bribery ideologies, lead the people to understand the courts, improve the public trust of the judiciary.
Promote ethic regulations by push for a lobbying registration system to build a clean trial environment and elevate the trust in judicial ethics.
Strengthen the investigation against illegal corruption cases, impose punishment in the cases that have broken judicial trust, and work hard on maintaining judicial ethics.
For the people suspect of violating ethics, an investigation team will be assembled in conjunction with both the Agency against Corruption and prosecution agency to actively research and collect information that would display the determination of maintaining judicial ethics.
Strengthen the safety of the Judicial Yuan and its subordinate agencies to ensure the safety of the departments and personnel; strengthen the protection of civil secrets and information security to prevent the secrets from leaking.
Using organizational learning to hold on-the-job training classes to improve the professional knowledge for ethics personnel to enhance the overall work efficiency.

(5) Accounting Administration

Create the general budget proposals for the Judicial Yuan and the Yuan’s management team to effectively use the country’s resources.
Compile the semi-annual and annual balance account reports of Judicial Yuan and its subordinate organs, provide the government’s financial information to effectively develop accounting measure that assist with management.
Hold internal reviews on the Judicial Yuan’s budget execution to improve the efficiency of government’s financial management.
On-site supervision of its subordinate agencies’ accounting practices to gain in-depth understanding of the situation to help resolve questions and maintain the quality of governmental financial information.
Handle the hiring, termination, transfer, award, discipline, pension, retirement, evaluation, review, honors, punishment, training, and professional seminars and workshops for the Judicial Yuan and its subordinate agencies’ accounting personnel to improve the quality of their personnel and services.
Supervise and audit the finances and accounting of the Judicial Yuan’s foundation to use judicial resources to best achieve the purpose of the donation.

(6) Statistics Administration

In accordance with judicial policy and to better reform of the system and legislative amendment, plan, collect, analyze and provide information on the decisions that would support statistics used in policy management functions.
Compilation of various judicial statistics from foreign judiciaries to provide reference for practice and research to improve on the effective use of statistical information.
Hold various statistics survey to collect information on how well the people know of the judiciary, explore how satisfied other people are with the quality of judicial services, and gain understanding on how well and agreeable the lawyers are with the judicial reform policies to provide basis for analyzing the effectiveness of policy execution.
In order to promote the development of the Citizen Judges system, to grasp the public's opinion, and to verify the effectiveness of the implementation of the system, the relevant statistics will be processed in cooperation in accordance with the Enforcement Rules of the Citizen Judges Act.
Handle the hiring, termination, transfer, award, discipline, training classes, and professional seminars for the Judicial Yuan and its subordinate agencies' statistics personnel to improve the quality of personnel and services.
Inspect the Statistics Departments in all levels of the court to better understand the situation with the statistics administration and assist in resolving any issues.

(7) Publication Administration

Edit and publish books related to judicial administration to provide reference for scholars and practitioners.
Publish the monthly Judicial Yuan Public Report.
Edit and publish the Judicial Weekly Newsletter every week and in case of special need, publish a special edition of the Judicial Weekly Newsletter in the form of Judicial Document Collections.
Compile the Judicial Annual Report, Judicial Annual Statistics Report, Judicial Monthly Statistics Report, and the Judicial Statistics of Important Reference Index.

Release Date : 2024-07-08
Update : 2025-09-10