Future Directions

Policy Objectives and Priorities of Ministry of Justice in 2025

The Ministry of Justice is Taiwan’s competent authority for legal administration, handling important business such as national prosecutorial administration, protection of crime victims, correction, integrity, administrative enforcement, legal consultation, legal affairs of the Executive Yuan, and training of judiciary. The subordinate agencies are divided into five systems: prosecution, investigation, integrity, correction, and administrative enforcement, and each performs duties in accordance with the relevant laws and regulations.

To safeguard social equity and justice, the Ministry will continue to strengthen anti-fraud strategies, improve drug prevention, implement judicial reform, expand mutual legal assistance, improve prison reform, implement judicial protection, establish a clean and efficient government, promote human rights protection, promote transitional justice, improve and modernize the judicial system, enhance administrative efficiency, and make good use of innovative technology to enhance efficiency as the focus of policy, jointly protect the well-being of the people, and create a happy, healthy and sustainable environment for generations.

According to the 2025 policy guidelines and budget quota of Executive Yuan and the current social status, Ministry of Justice enacts 2025 administrative plan as follows:

   I.Governance goals and strategies of 2025

1. Follow the "Five Strikes and Seven Safety" policy, strengthen drug prevention and fraud punishment strategies to maintain social order

• Trace the source and track down accomplices of fraud, increase criminal penalties and severely punish fraud crimes, strengthen horizontal connections across ministries, agencies, and fields, enhance the ability of law enforcement agencies to investigate technology-related crimes, and actively review and study laws and regulations related to combating fraud crimes.

• Optimize technological investigation and search equipment, actively investigate major crimes such as those hindering green energy, food safety, and organized crime, and stabilize economic order and maintain social security; prevent damage to land conservation, seize and confiscate illegal criminal proceeds, cut off the root causes of criminals, and further eradicate the causes of crimes.

• Implement “Action Plan of the New-Generation Anti-Drug Strategy (Phase 3)”, promote diversified treatment measures for drug users, use technology to detect and block the supply and demand of drugs, demonstrate the Government's zero-tolerance resolution on illicit drugs; and achieve the four major objectives of "disrupting supply and demand", "reducing drug harm", "stabilizing reintegration" and "suppressing recidivism".

• Improve forensic toxicology and chemistry examination tools, establish a modern internationally certified laboratory, enrich the database for identification of emerging drugs abuse, enhance emerging drug teting technology, develop new drug rapid test kit, and prevent the rampant spread of emerging drugs.

2. Promote judicial reform policies, enhance the efficiency of prosecutorial work with AI assistance, and create a judicial-friendly environment.

• Continue to implement judicial reform policies, promote legislation to address offenses obstructing judicial justice, and reshape the mechanism for the entry and training of judicial officers; construct a robust custody system for evidence of stolen items, assess the manpower and equipment of relevant law enforcement agencies, and establish a digital smart warehouse to enhance the safe and efficient management of evidence of stolen items by the procuratorate and judicial police agencies; actively request additional manpower and employ prosecutors’ assistants to rationally ease the case load of prosecutors.

• Advocate the inception of the national forensic science academy to spearhead forensic science policies, formulate the standard operating procedures for forensic science in our country and strengthen the ability of forensic science to discover the truth; establish advanced databases and digitization of epidemiological information, develop forensic medicine resources to improve the quality of scientific evidence, utilize molecular pathology to solve difficult identification cases, and assist in autopsies through CT scans, integrate 3D stereoscopic image reconstruction to investigate the cause of death, and improve the quality of scientific evidence.

• Promote the intelligent transformation of legal services, build a smart technology-based case handling and reliable data circulation environment, where AI assists public prosecutors in identifying and labeling evidence of the case, as well as organizing and analyzing the case file, improve the efficiency of case review, strategy formulation, and debates and arguments preparation by public prosecutors, and strengthen courtroom activities to achieve refined prosecution objectives; reinforce the information security protection system, carry out the expansion (relocation) and internal renovation, and equipment procurement plans for the subordinate agencies and offices to optimize the overall administrative efficiency of the Ministry of Justice.

3. Promote human rights protection and transitional justice, implement international human rights norms, and improve civil and administrative legal systems.

• Actively implement and examine the concluding observations and recommendations of the third international review of our national reports required by International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, regularly publish the national reports required by the preceding two Conventions, expand international human rights, and align with international human rights norms.

• Enhance the education on human rights required by the preceding two Covenants, promote awareness of human rights, strengthen dialogues with non-governmental organizations, expand domestic and international human rights exchanges, share and learn from experience in human rights protection; continue to ask various ministries to review laws and regulations to implement the Two Covenants and their general comments, and continuously promote transitional justice to redress judicial and administrative wrongs.

• Provide regulatory consultation opinions to various government agencies, organize legal advocacy campaigns to improve the civil and administrative legal systems.

4. Improve the anti-money laundering framework, promote international and cross-strait judicial cooperation, and implement security protection measures.

• Promote the amendment of the Anti-Money Laundering Act, create a sustainable environment with transparent and stable financial flows, enhance the awareness of money laundering risks in both public and private sectors, vigorously combat money laundering crimes, strengthen the investigation of channels for money laundering with illegal proceeds, cut off financial flows and suppress recidivism to effectively improve law enforcement efficiency.

• Continue to promote the negotiation and signing of mutual legal assistance agreements,strengthen international judicial cooperation, pragmatically expand international and cross-strait cooperation on mutual legal assistance in civil and criminal matters, and build a diversified cooperation network; establish an international and cross-strait cooperation model to combat cross-border crimes, jointly crack down on illegal activities, and enhance cross-strait cooperation in fighting crime; improve the legal system of mutual legal assistance and study relevant regulations.

• Build a tight security protection net, improve the security protection of critical infrastructure, Investigate, trace and prevent disinformation, strengthen investigation and prosecution capabilities, prevent infiltration and interference by external hostile forces , investigate and punish crimes and organizations that intend to endanger national security and trigger social instability, and safeguard national security; implement measures to prevent the theft of national core technologies and high-tech trade secrets, and safeguard the competitive advantage of national core technology industries.

5. Utilize the technology to assist prison management, supplements professional manpower, improves correctional treatment, and ensures seamless reintegration and transition.

• Establish the basic network construction and digitize monitoring systems in correctional institutions. utilize the Internet of Things to construct a technological safety network for correctional institutions, relieve the pressure on personnel on duty, create a technologically safe correctional environment, and improve correctional efficiency, thus achieving the phased objectives of modernizing correctional management.

• Establish a professional team for judicial correctional psychosocial treatment and continue to strive for more professional staffing positions, such as psychologists, social workers, and personal management personnel for correctional institutions, to promote the professionalization and individualization of correctional treatment; promote the expansion and renovation projects in correctional institutions to provide reasonable accommodation spaces for inmates, and alleviate the overcrowding situation in correctional institutions.

• Strengthen the care of inmates, emphasize equal treatment of vulnerable inmates, provide appropriate and reasonable adjustment measures and relevant regulations, ensure the basis of equal rights, pay special attention to the medical care, daily necessities and mental health of elderly inmates, in order to safeguard the human rights of inmates and enhance the image of our country's prison management.

• Integrate the status of inmates and connect them to community network units according to their needs, help inmates adjust to life after being released from prison. Provide appropriate treatment to correctional school students, inmates with multiple mental illness needs, and inmates who use drugs in order to facilitate their reintegration into society and prevent recidivism by establishing a social safety network.

6. Promote people-oriented judicial protection and develop the core business of "Accompanying Along the Way "

• Establish a professional team, connect external resources, assist various comorbidity-need cases to reintegrate into society, strengthen social safety protection networks, and promote diversified community treatment. Strengthen the transition from prison to society, improve the capacity of rehabilitation protection services, integrate the systems of rehabilitation protection, social administration, labor administration and health administration resources networks, implement through-the-line protection, strengthen transition and visiting counseling, maintain social security, provide appropriate and effective rehabilitation services, and effectively reduce recidivism.

• Implement various new laws and supporting measures under the "Law on the Protection of Rights and Interests of Crime Victims", improve the system for the protection of rights and interests of victims in our country, improve the service quality and empathetic assistance of protection work, supervise the Association for Victims Support to develop a diversified, accessible and intelligent service model and provide multilingual services; oversee various local prosecutors' offices to strengthen the promotion and execution quality of the "Restorative Judicial" practices, establish dedicated explanatory assistance personnel assistance to properly explain the concept of restorative justice to parties involved, and create promotional materials centered on victims’ rights, in order to increase the number of case referrals and provide the parties with alternative option outside of litigation.

7. Implement the United Nations Convention against Corruption, improve the anti-corruption legal system, and advocate corporate services and integrity governance

• Independently implement the United Nations Convention against Corruption, align with international standards, regularly publish the national reports under the United Nations Convention against Corruption, implement and examine the concluding observations of the Second Review under the preceding Convention, and strengthen national anti-corruption governance.

• Strengthen cross-agency communication in corruption cases, implement and promote whistleblower protection measures, and establish a zero-tolerance consensus toward corruption; utilize information technology to improve the efficiency of transcript in communication surveillance; improve investigation work, strengthen overall anti-corruption efforts, and increase the conviction rate for corruption cases.

• Promote the Government Procurement Integrity Platform mechanism, continuously control potential integrity risks, and strengthen anti-corruption measures in the public sector; assist businesses in addressing convenience and legal compliance or related integrity issues through the corporate service integrity platform, and advocate ethical values ​​and a culture of integrity in both of the public and private sectors.

• Conduct special audits on high-risk businesses involving corruption, and actively uncover corruption and illegal activities; strengthen measures to maintain institutional and agency security to prevent the leakage of official secrets and to prevent incidents of harm and sabotage.

8. Promote technological implementation measures, improve procedures for caring for the disadvantaged, and enhance service administrative efficiency.

• Implement paperless and electronic execution procedures, including paperless transfer of cases, seizure of deposits, collection orders, revocation orders and other electronic operations, as well as develop and build a data exchange platform to simplify the operation process and reduce manpower burden. Improve the "Auction Clairvoyance Project" to enhance transparency of judicial auctions and improve enforcement efficiency through "360-degree panoramic images", "VR equipment" and "drone cameras".

• Promote special project of enforcement, strengthen cross-agency cooperation and collaboration, and take strong enforcement measures such as restricting the departure of debtors with huge amount of debt or obligors who are maliciously defaulting on payments, applying to the court for arrest or detention, and issuing injunction orders to compel them to fulfill their financial obligations and realize the value of justice, so as to achieve the important goals of educating the public to abide by the law and prevent violations of the law, and enhance the function of legal compliance.
• Proactively care for vulnerable obligors who are in difficult situations, carry out caring visits and referral measures, assist in providing various social welfare assistance information, and use lenient enforcement methods to help them deal with public law monetary obligations; strengthen the education and training of enforcement personnel to ensure compliance with relevant statutory procedures and adherence to the principle of proportionality.