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Under article 3(1), 28, and 28-4 of the Court Organization Act, the hierarchy of ordinary courts in South Korea has three levels: District Courts (plus family court, bankruptcy court, and administrative court, which are specialized courts on matters of family, bankruptcy and administration laws), High Courts (plus patent court which is ...
South Korean courts are organized and empowered in chapters V and VI of the Constitution of the Republic of Korea. There is no system of juries in the judicial system of South Korea, although since February 2, 2008 a limited provision for advisory juries has been introduced for criminal cases and environmental cases, and all questions of law ...
The Supreme Court's fame and trust is again gradually deteriorating again in contemporary South Korea, due to social concerns on unfairly lenient attitude toward establishments like Chaebol [32] and embarrassing political struggle inside the hierarchy of ordinary courts such as case-rigging scandal of 15th Chief Justice Yang Sung-tae.
South Korea's presidential security service said in a statement on Tuesday that it will treat the arrest warrant according to due process. The court also approved a search warrant for Yoon's ...
South Korea's supreme court on Thursday upheld a ruling that a same-sex partner was eligible for spousal benefits from state health insurance, a move hailed as a win for LGBTQ rights in a country ...
The court also said the case falls within South Korea's jurisdiction as the plaintiffs live in the country and sought compensation over the acts that are deemed "unlawful" under its civil law.
The 1987 Constitution established the modern Constitutional Court of Korea and granted it authority to review matters of constitutionality. [6] The court has delivered several landmark decisions in South Korea's contemporary history, including the decriminalization of abortion and the impeachment of Park Geun-hye. [7]
SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's Constitutional Court on Monday began reviewing the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol over his Dec. 3 martial law proclamation, starting a process to decide if ...