第一天在臺北參加完POLA研討會後，我們就去參觀司法院。完整的憲法法院將由15名法官組成來聽審一個刑事案件。憲法法院是90年代初期軍政府被廢除之後成立的。到目前為止，只有六個案例作出憲法解釋，但是他們仍然是提供書面的意見，而從來沒有提交過任何口頭決定。
Visiting the Judicial Yuan at Taiwan
After attending the first day of the Presidents of Law Associations in Asia’s (“POLA”) seminar in Taipei, we went to visit the Judicial Yuan.
The full constitution court would be presided by a panel of 15 judges to hear a constitutional case. The constitutional court was established after the abolition of the military government in the early 1990s. So far there have been only six cases of interpretation of the constitution but even then they were decided by paper submissions only without any oral submissions.
這是高等法院裏面的一個刑事審判庭。
This is a Criminal Court inside High Court.
在美國有一種說法：“政府是人民的。來自於人民，服務於人民。”我現在在臺灣，袁說“司法為民”。
There is a saying in the States that, “Government of the People, by the People, for the People. Here in Taiwan the Yuan says that, “Judiciary is for the People”.