Judicial Yuan Secretary-General Lin Chin-fang (林錦芳), tapped to be the next Judicial Yuan vice president, has been accused of plagiarism by New Power Party Executive Chairman Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌).
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers yesterday said that a rigorous review should be conducted and if the accusation is confirmed, Lin should withdraw her candidacy.
Huang on Thursday said that an article Lin published in a criminal law journal in October 2011 has passages that are nearly identical to those in a June 2011 report written by Central Police University Department of Crime Prevention and Corrections professor Chen Yu-shu (陳玉書).
Along with a photograph comparing two passages from the two papers, the NPP lawmaker said on Facebook that some paragraphs in Lin’s article and the report have identical “sentences and punctuation marks,” and questioned how that is possible if Lin’s paper was her “own creation.”
“If the paper was ‘co-authored,’ why was Lin’s name displayed as the paper’s sole author?” Huang asked.
Lin responded in a statement on Thursday night that Huang’s allegation of plagiarism resulted from a misunderstanding.
Lin said that Chen’s report was the product of a research team on offenses against sexual autonomy that consisted of Judicial Yuan officials, representatvies of civic groups and academics.
She said that as she had personally participated in every stage of the team’s discussion and research, and had reviewed and revised the report, the use of the same terms and phrases was unavoidable in the paper later published in the journal.
DPP Legislator Lee Chun-yi (李俊俋) yesterday said that Lin has denied the allegation, but said that the legislature would conduct “a rigorous review of Lin’s qualifications when it is asked to confirm the nominations.”
“Whether a paper contains plagiarism should be [determined within] academia and supported with evidence,” DPP Legislator Chung Chia-pin (鍾佳濱) said, adding that the legislature would re-review the nominees using the new information.”
KMT caucus convener Sufin Siluko (廖國棟) said that similar situations “happen all the time when there are nominations” and that if the accusation is true, Lin should withdraw from the candidacy.
The previous withdrawal of a nomination in relation to an academic scandal involved Bert Lim (林建山), who was found by DPP Legislator Kuan Bi-ling (管碧玲) to have a fake doctorate after then-president Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) nominated him to be a Control Yuan member.
Additional reporting by Hsiang Cheng-chen
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