To strengthen the understanding and consensus of prosecutors and prosecutorial staff regarding the effectiveness of restorative justice, Chief Prosecutor Chen Sung-Chi and Chief Prosecutor He Hui-jun, who supervises this business, specially convened this restorative case sharing meeting. They invited Prosecutor Huang Pin-chen and facilitator Psychologist Hsu Yu-shuang to share the origins and restorative processes of the referral cases.

Currently, our office employs 20 restorative facilitators, many of whom have professional backgrounds as psychologists or social workers. During the restorative process, facilitators dedicate their time to engage in discussions with both parties, exercising empathy and discovering opportunities for good-faith communication amid complex case details.

Through the case sharing meeting, prosecutors and restorative facilitators had the opportunity for face-to-face dialogue, sharing their perspectives and considerations from different positions. Both sides hope that through the restorative process, the parties can resolve their previous fixations or rigid thoughts, attempt to understand each other, and generate new perspectives on the case, leading to potential breakthroughs, achieving discussions, dialogue meetings, and even developing agreements, reconciliations, or withdrawals of complaints.

The restorative justice system has its characteristics and advantages: its essence is flexible justice, which relies on the insight into referral opportunities, specifically implemented in individual cases, imparting warmth and humanity to the litigation process, and also providing opportunities to reduce litigation sources. With the continuous operation of restorative flexible justice, it is believed that it can promote good-faith communication and human-centered care among parties, increasing mutual recognition of litigation outcomes and reducing the harm caused by incidents.