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June 2018

If records created by social workers or counselors for their counseling cases only record a victim's statement, they are still the same cumulative evidence as a victim's statement and have nothing to do with corroborative evidence (Taiwan)

June 2018

The two-year statute of limitation under the National Compensation Law shall commence upon knowledge of the claimant concerning the damage and causes and facts associated with the national compensation and is not preconditioned by the confirmation of illegality through the prosecution, a guilty court decision or an administrative litigation (Taiwan)

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)