TAIPEI (Taiwan News) -- The NGO “Judges for Transformative Justice” (法官翻轉司法群策會), founded by former judges, responded Thursday (April 25) to the Judicial Yuan’s pledge to remove unfit judges by calling the promise "laughable" in a Facebook page.

The Judicial Yuan on Thursday, April 25, said in a hearing that it will work with parliament and NGOs to eliminate bad judges. But the promise was met with criticism from the Judges for Transformative Justice Group, who called it a "hollow" assurance.

The group pointed out in the post that since Secretary-General Lu Tai-lang (呂太郎) took office in November 2016, his judicial administration has admitted two unfit judges to serve. The two judges, surnamed Yu (俞) and Ho (何), did not face any investigation into their wrongdoings. Yu resigned after the Control Yuan initiated inquiries into his wrongdoings last September, before the investigation concluded in December. Yu’s verdict was an impeachment.

The group said that without its past efforts to expose several unfit judges and prosecutors by name, the Judiciary would not have launched any investigation, and some of the identified judges would not have resigned.

The group thinks the responsibility of identifying bad judges should be placed with the Judicial Yuan’s President and legislators, instead of with the judges themselves.

In the Facebook post, the organization also called Lu’s disagreement over amending the evaluation and elimination mechanisms flimsy, as the current judicial administration has not complied with the current Judges Act to file any evaluation forms.

The “Judges for Transformative Justice” accused the Judicial Yuan’s administrators of trying to please both sides and not dealing with core problem of unethical and negligent practices within the system.