SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The Supreme Court of Korea’s mock sentencing program has proved a great success, attracting interest from thousands of people. The online educational program, which was designed to inform the public about the criminal sentencing process, has been accessed by over 35,000 people since it was released last month, according to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court of Korea is developing a program through which members of the public can experience and learn about the criminal sentencing process, in a move to gain public trust in the country’s criminal justice system. The education initiative, currently in development, was unveiled to the public today at [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The Supreme Court of Korea has ordered the government to provide compensation to dozens of people who experienced humiliation using toilets in extremely poor condition at a detention center. It’s the first time the Supreme Court has reached a verdict in favor of plaintiffs over a case involving a poorly [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of civil and family lawsuits and criminal cases filed last year hit an 18-year high not seen since the Korean financial Crisis in 1998. According to data released on Monday by the administrative department at the Supreme Court of Korea, the number of lawsuits filed in 2016 [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the state to pay compensation to a suspect for forcing him to wear handcuffs and be tied with a rope during questioning by a prosecutor. The ruling came after Lee Young-chun, a former head of the militant Korean Confederation of Trade Unions’ regional chapter in Goyang and Paju, north of Seoul, launched a lawsuit in May 2015, claiming he was forced to wear handcuffs and be [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Fees owed for electronic litigation can now be paid using mobile phones, the Supreme Court of Korea announced last week. Mobile payments will now be an available option for those who use the electronic litigation system on the website of the Supreme Court of Korea to deal with legal problems. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The Supreme Court of Korea ruled that any divorce lawsuits filed by spouses who are responsible for the breakup of the marriage cannot be allowed in principle. On September 15, the nation’s highest court upheld a lower courts’ decision against an unfaithful spouse who filed the lawsuit, by a majority [...]
SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The Supreme Court of Korea is devising a measure to redefine the amount of legal fees that winners of lawsuits can reclaim from losers. The Judicial System Improvement Committee of the highest court held a meeting to discuss such measures to rationalize the judicial system, including legal fee compensation standards, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – A worker who was scheduled to be dispatched on an overseas project gave up the position due to his poor English ability. However, the extreme stress caused by his English incompetence finally led to his suicide, and a lawsuit from his wife requesting that the death be viewed as [...]