2007年4月13日 星期五

Find Taiwan Court Cases

How to find Taiwan Court Cases?

Taiwan Online Court Cases Data Bank

This website contains almost every cases in Taiwan since 1999, except sexual abuse cases. It also provides online full-text court cases which including civil court cases, criminal court cases and administration court cases. The most amazing thing is that it also collects cases from different level of courts including the Supreme court, Appeal court(Taiwan High Court) and District Court, and it is free, online and full-text.
However, it provides tradtional Chinese only.

This website was supervised by Judicial Yaun, so researchers can regard it an official website. In practice, local lawyers or both parties use it as a "win-rate data bank" from case outcomes. If lawyers or people are good at this research tool, it is fair to say, he or she can roughly predicts what kind of risk his or her case might has. As researchers, they prefer to analyze the legal issues by it's great keyword function and fast speed. As a prosecutor, I prefer to discuss the result of cases with defense lawyer in order to have reasonable pleas and sentence.


By Wan-Li Yang
2007.4.13
rewrite 2010.6.14

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