英文摘要 |
With the progress of democratization and global movement, effectively participate in international human rights treaty has been an important task for Taiwanese government. Though Taiwan is unable to officially enter international treaties, the Legislative Yuan of Taiwan has unilaterally ratified the ICCPR and ICESCR on March 31, 2009. The ministry of Justice has also incorporated those two treaties into our domestic legal system in the same year. This article focuses on the spirit, contents and interpretation of the principle of double jeopardy under paragraph 7, article 14 of the ICCPR. The article also sheds lights on related issues and controversy advocated among different schools of thought. Besides, the author intentionally leaves several issues involving the principle of double jeopardy such as repeated offender, previous conviction, recognition of foreign judgment, etc. to other articles. |