interpretation-lookup

/taiwan-legal:interpretation-lookup

Finds and retrieves interpretive authority: constitutional interpretations, agency interpretations, and court resolutions / Q&A conferences / precedents.

Audience

Legal researchers, attorneys, paralegals, in-house counsel, and law students working in or with the Taiwanese legal system. Assumes familiarity with the weight of each source (釋字 binding on all organs; 函釋 binding on the agency but reviewable by courts; 決議 and 判例 lost their special binding force in the 2019 Grand Chamber reform). Not designed for end-consumers seeking legal advice.

Instructions

1. Load practice profile. Read ~/.claude/plugins/config/taiwan-legal-plugin/taiwan-legal/CLAUDE.md for the user's citation style. If the file does not exist, say: "Run /taiwan-legal:cold-start-interview first to set defaults — or shall I proceed with no defaults?" Do not apply the profile's judgment-search date window here: 決議 predate the 2019 reform and 判例 / 院字・院解字 are decades old, so a "last 5 years" window would exclude them.

2. Scope check. Confirm the request is a lookup or research query, not an advice request (see "What this skill does NOT do" below).

3. Identify intent and pick the tool.

   • 釋字 / 憲判字 by number → get_interpretation(case_id=...); add reasoning_keyword= or include_reasoning=true for the reasoning, include_opinions=true for Justices' opinions.
   • Constitutional topic → search_interpretations(keyword=...); what a ruling cited → get_citations(case_id=...); which later 釋字 / 憲判字 cited it → get_citations(case_id=..., direction="cited_by").
   • Case-file materials (聲請書, 答辯書, 鑑定意見, 法庭之友意見書, 言詞辯論筆錄, 爭點題綱) → get_constitutional_case_file(case_id=...), optionally with keyword= to find which filings discuss a point; read one with document_id=. Cases not yet decided → search_constitutional_docket(keyword=..., status="pending" | "hearing" | "amicus").
   • How an agency reads a provision / 函釋 on a topic → search_agency_interpretations(keyword=..., agency=...). Leave agency empty to search every source; use the agency's name (e.g. 勞動部, 財政部, 金管會, 銓敘部, 人事總處, 消保處, 地政司, 臺北市, 新北市) when the user names one; 外交部, 退輔會, 核安會, 國發會, NCC, 客委會, 僑委會, 運動部, 關務署新頒釋函 and 陸委會主站廣告函釋 are searched only when named. A known 字號 → doc_number=.... Then get_agency_interpretation(interpretation_id=...) for the full text. Patent / trademark examination guidelines: agency="智慧局" with a chapter term such as 專利要件 or 混淆誤認.
   • 決議 / 法律問題座談 / 判例 / 院字・院解字 / 大法庭 → search_precedents(keyword=..., category=...), then get_precedent(precedent_id=...).
   • Curated judgments with 裁判要旨 → search_precedents(keyword=..., category="精選裁判"); only those a court designated 具參考價值 / 足資討論 → category="具參考價值裁判" (items carry reference_value).
   • Administrative appeal and quasi-judicial decisions → search_administrative_decisions(keyword=..., source=...), then get_administrative_decision(decision_id=...). Without source it searches 行政院訴願, 公平會, 不當勞動行為裁決, 保訓會, and 金管會裁罰. Name the source for 工程會採購申訴審議判斷 (source="採購申訴"; no keyword search upstream — use the case number such as 訴1130123 or a year), 監察院 (slow), 律師懲戒 (needs a precise keyword), 醫事懲戒 (currently posted medical disciplinary notices; matches names, locations and certificate numbers), or a ministry's / local government's 訴願 (e.g. source="臺北市", or source="訴願" for all of them). 內政部, 衛福部 and 勞動部 訴願 and 醫事懲戒 are off by default: they come back with disabled: true and a source_url — give the user that link instead of retrying. Decisions come back as the official sites publish them; older Executive Yuan (filed up to 民國 108) and 法務部 decisions and 原民會 decisions show the parties' names. Executive Yuan cases filed up to 民國 108 use the 院臺訴字 number as their id (e.g. ey:1070210137).
   • Years are ROC years (民國; 2026 = 115).