Commercial Case Adjudication Act Article 17
When necessary, Commercial Court judges may order commercial investigators to perform the following duties:1. Analyze and organize disputed facts, evidence and legal issues related to pleadings and materials, provide reference materials in relevant professional fields to support explanations, or prepare reports2. Clarify the relationships among relevant laws and facts, make inquiries to the parties, related parties, agents ad litem, witnesses, expert witnesses, and examiners related to factual and legal issues when necessary3. Assist the judge in inspections, identifications, perpetuations of evidence, or provisional remedy proceedings4. Other matters as assigned by the judgeThe reports prepared by commercial investigators shall remain confidential. However, for the special professional knowledge acquired by the court with the assistance of commercial investigators, the parties or related parties should be given an opportunity to debate or state their opinions, before such knowledge is included as a basis for adjudication.The provisions concerning the recusal of judges in the Taiwan Code of Civil Procedure shall apply mutatis mutandis to commercial investigators.
中文原文 商業事件審理法第17條
商業法院之法官於必要時，得命商業調查官執行下列職務：
一、就書狀及資料，分析及整理事證爭點及法律疑義，提供說明之專業領域參考資料或製作報告書。
二、為使法律及事實關係明確，就事實上及法律上之事項，向當事人或關係人、程序代理人、證人、專家證人或鑑定人為必要之發問。
三、於勘驗、鑑定、證據保全或保全程序，提供法官協助。
四、其他法官交辦事項。
商業調查官製作之報告書，不予公開。
但法院因商業調查官提供而獲知之特殊專業知識，應予當事人或關係人有辯論或陳述意見之機會，始得採為裁判之基礎。
民事訴訟法有關法官迴避之規定，於商業調查官準用之。
一、就書狀及資料，分析及整理事證爭點及法律疑義，提供說明之專業領域參考資料或製作報告書。
二、為使法律及事實關係明確，就事實上及法律上之事項，向當事人或關係人、程序代理人、證人、專家證人或鑑定人為必要之發問。
三、於勘驗、鑑定、證據保全或保全程序，提供法官協助。
四、其他法官交辦事項。
商業調查官製作之報告書，不予公開。
但法院因商業調查官提供而獲知之特殊專業知識，應予當事人或關係人有辯論或陳述意見之機會，始得採為裁判之基礎。
民事訴訟法有關法官迴避之規定，於商業調查官準用之。