【Glimmers in the Dark: Guarding the Long Night of Justice】
The Lumina Justice Foundation was officially established on March 27, founded by 14 professionals spanning legal practice, academia, politics, and public affairs. Former Supremge Court Judge Chien Chien-jung serves as chairperson, leading the foundation’s mission to drive judicial reform and exonerate the wrongfully convicted. The Board of Directors includes Chu Ching-yi, Wu Hao-ren, Lee Chuan-he, Kao Yung-cheng, Chang Wen-chen, Chang Chuan-fen, Hsu Yu-xiu, Chen Szu-meng, Chien Chien-jung, Tai Zhang-huang, and Yen Kuei-an; the Board of Supervisors comprises Lin Chuan, Kao Yang-hui, and Feng Hsien-hsien.
According to its charter, the Lumina Justice Foundation focuses on systemic reform and case assistance for wrongful convictions, research into investigation, trial, and execution procedures, prosecution and judicial policy reform, as well as the advocacy and implementation of due process. It also aims to promote judicial transparency, protect human rights, and enforce procedural oversight through advocacy, education, publications, research, and public communication.
Chien Chien-jung stated that the foundation was created to help those who have suffered injustice. Armed with dedicated professional staff, it seeks to rectify wrongful convictions across all legal domains—including administrative and civil disputes, not just criminal cases. “Whenever we discover or suspect that state power is abusing citizens, our foundation is ready to step in,” Chien noted.
The Lumina Justice Foundation emphasized that miscarriages of justice do not merely delay justice; they breed further injustice when the state manufactures wrongful cases. Furthermore, even when an offense has occurred, excessive punishment by the judicial system falls within the foundation’s scope of review.
Featuring academic pioneers, seasoned legal professionals, prominent political leaders, and media experts, this interdisciplinary composition aims to break the closed, traditional culture dominated almost exclusively by legal insiders. The foundation asserts that judicial reform must not remain an insider conversation among legal experts, but rather a broader “social project” involving the entire public. Moving forward, it plans to actively engage human rights organizations, academic institutions, and local communities both domestically and internationally to deepen rule-of-law concepts, address systemic blind spots, and support vulnerable groups overlooked by the system.
Translated by Google Gemini
