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July 2019

When the presiding judge has presented evidence in the court files by category to the parties so that the parties and their defenders may state their opinions, if the defendant's and the defender's right of defense are not affected, this is still a legally appropriate exercise of the presiding judge's authority to guide litigation and cannot be accused of illegality for being viewed generally as packaged evidence presentation (Taiwan)

July 2019

When determining there is drunk driving that may lead to a traffic hazard, a police officer may stop the vehicle for a spot check; and if the driver fails to comply and drives on, the police officer cannot be requested not to stop the vehicle if the likelihood of hazard cannot be eliminated (Taiwan)

July 2019

Special Pardons Order from the President of the People's Republic of China – Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on Granting Special Pardons on the Occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China (Mainland China)

June 2019

Except when laws and regulations are obviously violated or when a party has produced new litigation materials sufficient to reverse the original determination, the court and the parties shall not make any opposite determination or assertion about important issues which have been determined by the court in a lawsuit filed by the same party for such important issues (Taiwan)

June 2019

In case of any doubt as to the application scope of an interested party to a public servant when the interested party to a public servant is being defined, a strict and restrictive interpretation should be rendered; and, therefore, directors stipulated under Article 3, Subparagraph 4 of the Law on the Recusal of Public Servants Due to Conflicts of Interest before amendment should not include independent directors (Taiwan)

June 2019

The requirement under a contract that if any party to the contract defaults the other party can rescind the contract and claim damages from the other party aims to cause the parties to perform the contract, and it is not true that either party may arbitrarily rescind the contract by paying the default penalty (Taiwan)