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The legal system of South Korea is a civil law system that has its basis in the Constitution of the Republic of Korea. The Court Organization Act, which was passed into law on 26 September 1949, officially created a three-tiered, independent judicial system.
Before South Korea adopted the American law school system (법학전문대학원) in 2007, South Korea trained its legal professionals mainly by the Judicial Research and Training Institute (JRTI, 사법연수원). The trainees at JRTI were selected by a nationwide exam on jurisprudence called the 'Judicial exam' (사법시험). These trainees ...
South Koreans have been familiar with offline real-name systems since the mid-1990s, when legislation was introduced that required a real name to be used for property and financial transactions. In August 2011 hackers accessed the databases for the real-name system, obtaining the registration numbers of 35 million people.
The current judicial system of South Korea, particularly the Constitutional Court of Korea, was influenced by the Austrian judicial system. [13] While Austria has three apex courts, whose jurisdictions are defined in different chapters of the Austrian constitution, [14] the South Korean constitution [15] establishes only two apex courts.
The Civil Code of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) was passed in 1958 as Law No. 471 and is known in South Korea as one of the three fundamental laws, the other two being Criminal law and constitution. It is made up of five parts, Part I (general provisions), Part II (real rights), Part III (claims), Part IV (relatives), and Part V ...
SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol is willing to present his views himself during legal proceedings related to his short-lived declaration of martial law, a lawyer ...
After Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia on 25 June 1991, the previous legal system was used as a base for writing new laws. "The Law on Obligations" ("Zakon o obveznim odnosima") was enacted in 2005. [14] Today, Croatia as a European Union member state implements elements of the EU acquis into its legal system. Cuba
In South Korea, a certiorari system was established in March 1981 under the Special Act on Acceleration of Lawsuits (소송촉진 특례법), which granted the Supreme Court the authority to decline hearing cases it considered trivial or unworthy of review. However, given that the South Korean legal system generally upholds the guiding ...