COMPETING PROPOSALS:Lawmakers said that the recommendations of the congress on judicial reform were non-binding, while the Judicial Yuan put forward its own ideas

Taipei Times
Date: Oct 03, 2017
By: Chen Wei-han  /  Staff reporter

Lawmakers yesterday traded barbs over whether the Presidential Office should answer to the Legislative Yuan on the issue of judicial reform, after Presidential Office Secretary-General Joseph Wu (吳釗燮) was absent from a legislative session.

Wu, Judicial Yuan Secretary-General Lu Tai-lang (呂太郎) and Minister of Justice Chiu Tai-san (邱太三) were invited by the legislature’s Judiciary and Organic Laws and Statutes Committee to make a report to the National Congress on Judicial Reform, which concluded in August.

However, Wu abstained from the committee meeting and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmakers refused to register their attendance despite their presence to prevent the session from commencing due to a lack of quorum.    [FULL  STORY]