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The popular voting system can be blamed for last year’s dismal settlement results in civilian cases where the first ruling took an average 473.4 days, more than 60 percent longer than in 2017.
The Constitutional Court has temporarily suspended a legal provision that states that a case can only be heard when at least seven judges are present, seemingly evading a looming paralysis of the bench.
As concerns deepen over the possibility that the People Power Party will nominate former prosecutors and judges for the April 10 parliamentary elections, PPP interim leader Han Dong-hoon, former justice minister, denies it.
The two parties must pass the bill on increasing judges first, which is more urgent.
Prosecutors dropped a case against their boss, Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-youl, of abuse of power for ordering investigations of judges in hot-potato trials.
Korea’s top judge vowed Monday to fight all outside attacks on the independence of the judiciary in an apparent response to partisan broadsides leveled against judges in recent high-profile court cases.
Korea’s leading judicial conference on Monday resolved not to release a statement addressing allegations that the state prosecution service surveilled judges, after seven different proposals were shot down by a majority.
Judges from across the country convened for an internal meeting Monday that included discussions of allegations that the state prosecution service spied on individual judges to glean their political leanings.
Korea JoongAng Daily Sitemap