The Ministry of Justice (MOJ, ) is a ministerial level governmental body of the Republic of China (

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), responsible for carrying out various judicial functions.

History

Former Gate of Ministry of Justice in Nanjing 01 2013-04

Taiwan's first Justice Ministry was created in 1895 under Japan's Ministry of Justice, founded in 1871 during the Meiji era, when Taiwan was under

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. The Ministry of Justice was established in 1912 upon the establishment of the

Republic of China Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeas ...

, with the first Minister of Justice being Mao Zhuquan. After China was unified under the Nationalist government, the

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was inaugurated and the ministry was renamed the Ministry of Judicial Administration and placed under administration of the Judicial Yuan. In 1943, the ministry was shifted from the Judicial Yuan to the

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. After the

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in 1949, the administration was shifted to

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. On 1 July 1980, the ministry was renamed again as the Ministry of Justice.

Organizational structure

The Ministry of Justice has the following branches:

Departments

* Department of Legal System * Department of Legal Affairs * Department of Prosecutorial Affairs * Department of International and Cross-Strait Legal Affairs * Department of Prevention, Rehabilitation and Protection * Department of Government Employee Ethics * Department of Personnel * Department of Accounting * Department of Statistics * Department of Information Management * Secretariat

Affiliated agencies

* Investigation Bureau * Administrative Enforcement Agency * Agency Against Corruption * Agency of Corrections * Prosecutors Office * Academy for the Judiciary * Institute of Forensic Medicine

Functions

* Legal Affairs * Procuratorial Administration * Correctional Operations * Judicial Protection * Operations on Government Employee Ethics * Information Management * Investigation Work * Cultivation of Personnel

List of Ministers

Political parties:

Access

The MOJ building is within walking distance just north of the Xiaonanmen Station of the

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on the Green Line.

Notes

References

External links

Taiwan Law ResourcesThe Judicial YuanLegislative YuanExecutive Yuan
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Justice Justice, in its broadest sense, is the principle that people receive that which they deserve, with the interpretation of what then constitutes "deserving" being impacted upon by numerous fields, with many differing viewpoints and perspective ...