The Mainland Affairs Council yesterday said a Chinese proposal to allow court orders and related legal documents to be sent across the strait via regular mail, electronic mail or fax would not protect the rights of Taiwanese.
MAC Deputy Chairman Liu Teh-hsun (劉德勳) called the method an underhanded way to degrade Taiwan’s sovereignty because international lawsuits should be handled by the supreme courts of either country, not by local courts as proposed by Beijing, in accordance with international practice.
Moreover, Liu said Taiwan had not been consulted on the deal.
“It is obvious that Beijing is treating the matter as a domestic issue, not a country-to-country issue,” he said.
In a press conference yesterday, Huang Songyou (黃松有), vice-president of the Supreme Court of the People’s Republic of China, unveiled a new policy that allows Chinese plaintiffs to notify Taiwanese defendants via regular mail, electronic mail or fax.
These methods are grossly insufficient to protect the rights of Taiwanese defendants because, unlike registered mail, they do not confirm that the recipients have received the notices, Liu said, warning that under the new policy, people might be subpoenaed without ever knowing it.
He said that currently, any cross-strait lawsuit correspondence is handled by Taiwan’s Straits Exchange Foundation and its Chinese counterpart the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait in which both organizations act as messengers between the two supreme court systems in both countries.
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