(Staff reporter) After the Supreme Court and the Supreme Administrative Court deleted the regulations on confidential case assignment in their court procedures, the Supreme Court convened on Apr. 9 a meeting of civil and criminal court chief justices and judges to amend the provisions regarding confidential case assignment in the Supreme Court Guidelines for Sequencing, Counting, and Assignment Report and Closure of Civil and Criminal Cases.
The amendment was primarily to change the original regulation of “confidential case assignment” to “regular case assignment”. Besides revising the related case assignment procedures, the amendment also added that people who met the definition of involved party, victim, plaintiff, informer, defendant, advocate, or litigation representative in the Code of Civil Procedure or Code of Criminal Procedure could request in writing for the name of the presiding judge of the case. This was intended to make case assignment transparent and protect people’s right to benefit of justice.
It was also decided in the meeting that starting on Apr. 16 the name of the presiding judge would be listed as the last of the members of the collegiate court in the verdict. The decision was made as a response to the expectation of the public.
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