EXPEDITED: While the Taipei High Administrative Court did have concerns about the constitutionality of the act about ill-gotten gains, it felt a timely ruling was needed
Taipei Times
Date: Feb 10, 2018
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter
The Taipei High Administrative Court yesterday rejected the National Women’s
National Women’s League chairwoman Joanna Lei speaks at a news conference in Taipei on Feb. 1. Photo: Chien Jung-fong, Taipei Times
League’s request to halt the execution of the Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee’s naming of the league as a Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) affiliate.
The league filed for the request after the committee on Feb. 1 determined it to be affiliated with the KMT, questioning the constitutionality of the Act Governing the Handling of Ill-gotten Properties by Political Parties and Their Affiliate Organizations (政黨及其附隨組織不當取得財產處理條例), and argued that the committee’s ruling could cause irreparable damage to the league.
The committee also froze all of the league’s assets, including NT$38.5 billion (US$1.31 billion) in cash, in response to the league’s member representatives’ vote on Jan. 31 against signing an administrative contract with the government to voluntarily dissolve itself.
In its ruling yesterday, the administrative court said that in most cases, when a court encounters laws or regulations that could be unconstitutional, it has to rule to suspend the court case until a constitutional interpretation has been issued. [FULL STORY]
