In 2014, Seong-geun Lim, then chief criminal justice of the Seoul Central District Court, is holding a meeting with prison guards at the Seoul Detention Center. Newsis
155 incumbent attorneys volunteered to act as the representative of the Busan High Court chief judge Im Seong-geun, the first in the history of the constitution.
Kim Hyun, former president of the Korean Bar Association, said on the 15th that “to defend the independence of the judiciary and the rule of law, and to defend Judge Im, 155 lawyers from all over the country volunteered for the delegation.”
The list of delegates includes Young-moo Shin and Hyun-Kim Kim, former Chairman of the Korean Byunhyup, Lee Seok-yeon, former Minister of Legal Affairs, Lee Myung-sook and Lee Eun-kyung, former Chairman of the Korean Women’s Bar Association, Lee Heon, former Chairman of the Korea Legal Aid Corporation, Jang Yoon-seok, Ko Seung-deok, former lawmakers, Cho Dae-hwan, former Cheong Wa Dae Min Jeong, Jeong Jin-gyu, and Moon Hyo-nam, former high prosecutors. Etc.
Among them, a total of 27 lawyers were Judge Lim and the 17th class member of the Judicial Research and Training Institute. Previously, 140 attorneys of the 17th term issued a statement on the 5th, saying, “The substance of the impeachment prosecution (to the vice-president judge) originated from the political purpose of taming the court and establishing the position of the offender’s passport, and is an unconstitutional ex officio that violates the independence of the judiciary. Abuse” has been claimed.
However, Judge Lim is known to have a separate delegation to take charge of the impeachment trial of the Constitutional Court, apart from the lawyers who volunteered for the delegation. Attorney Geun-soo Yoon, an attorney for Judge Lim, said, “The deputy group has not been confirmed yet. The possibility of having one or two attorneys from Hwawoo Law Firm, and one or two attorneys from Constitutional Justice, This is big,” he explained.
The prosecution members of the National Assembly have already appointed Yang Hong-seok at the law firm Lee Gong and Lee Myung-woong and Shin Mi-yong, former constitutional researchers, as agents. Attorney Lee and attorney Shin served as representatives of the National Assembly in the trial for impeachment of former President Park Geun-hye in early 2017.
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