Categories

November 2019

Arbitration / Litigation

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

Other Areas

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

Other Areas

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

Employment Law

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

PRC Investment and Legal Compliance

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)

November 2019

Capital Market / Securities

With respect to the operation of the securities business, it is not appropriate to conclude that there is an act of securities trading operation merely based on the actor's single resale of shares to specific persons (Taiwan)