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June 2018

Article 28, Paragraph 2 of the Personal Property Secured Transactions Law seeks to compensate impairment to the value of a transaction object, which is different from the right of claim over the rental price of personal property or the price of a good or product and to which a short statute of limitations does not apply (Taiwan)

May 2018

It should not be concluded that a statement which is supposed to be sworn but is not sworn is admissible evidence simply on the ground that the statements of the joint accused were not illegally extracted or there was no other circumstance where the statements were obviously unbelievable due to impediment of freedom of statement during the interrogation by the prosecutor (Taiwan)

May 2018

The use of a tracking device to obtain the location information of a vehicle and its user to ascertain the daily life routine and behavioral patterns of the vehicle user through comparative analysis is a major violation of the privacy of the vehicle user (Taiwan)

May 2018

For a person to whom service of documents is attempted and who has stayed overseas for a long period of time, service by deposit at a police station for the registered household of the person to whom service of documents is attempted is certainly not lawful (Taiwan)

May 2018

An administrative agency which refuses to provide government information is required to indicate the legality for the refusal, and the court shall also examine such government information in whole or in part to determine if the refusal of such administrative agency to provide government information is lawful (Taiwan)

April 2018

Since the accused was tortured for confession before his statement was taken, the confession given during police interrogation shortly thereafer was resulted from a continuation of the pressure from improper police torture before the statement was drafted; and, therefore, such statement, which was not given out of arbitrariness, should be excluded (Taiwan)