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November 2019

If the acts of tort engaged by a perpetrator are continuous to the extent that the consequences of victimization are continuous and mutually independent and distinguishable, the beginning of the period of extinctive prescription shall be separately determined based on the victim's knowledge (Taiwan)

November 2019

If a national compensation claimant may obtain property rights from other people to compensate the damage suffered during the performance of public duty by a civil servant, such property rights which may be obtained for the sake of compensation should be deducted to calculate the actual damage so sustained (Taiwan)

November 2019

Since advertisements per se do not essentially cause environmental pollution, in case the person who sets up an illegal advertisement cannot be substantiated, if the competent authority for the advertisement elects to notify a telecommunications enterprise to stop the telecommunications service for the telephone number indicated in the advertisement, this practice is hardly appropriate under the law (Taiwan)

November 2019

An insurance company is not bound by a contract that was signed under the name of another; the party therefore cannot terminate by alleging his/her status as the actual applicant (Taiwan)

November 2019

Even if an employee's participation in an illegal act at the instruction of his/her employer results in an impairment to the company's rights and interests, it is still difficult to conclude there is any reason attributable to the employee (Taiwan)

November 2019

The management mechanisms for the visit of civil servants to mainland China are enhanced by amending the Statute for Relations between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area (Taiwan)