In 2012, then, Seong-geun Lim, a standing member of the Supreme Court’s Suspension Committee, answers inquiries at the Supreme Court’s National Audit of the National Assembly Legislative Judicial Committee held in the Supreme Court. yunhap news
155 lawyers, including former Legal Affairs Minister Lee Seok-yeon, volunteered to defend the deputy chief Justice Lim Seong-geun, who was impeached.
According to the list of delegates on the 15th, Shin Young-moo, the 46th president of the Korean Bar Association, Lee Seok-yeon, former head of the Legal Affairs Office, Hwang Jeok-hwa, former chief judge of the high law, Jeong Jin-gyeong, former chief judge, Jeong Jin-gyu, former chief prosecutor, Moon Hyo-nam, former prosecutor Kang Kyung-pil, former prosecutor Kang Chan-woo, former deputy chief prosecutor Shin Byeong-soo. , Former deputy prosecutor Jo Jung-hwan, former chief prosecutor Lee Young-se, and former chief prosecutor Kim Dong-chan were named.
In addition to Judge Lim’s 17th motive for the Judicial Research and Training Institute, other riders also volunteered for the delegation. From the 9th bar exam to the 16th judicial training institute, 31 (20%), the 17th training center 27 (17%), the 18th to 30th training center 32 (21%), the 31st to 44th training center 38 (25 %), 6 military judges (3%), and 21 bar exams (14%).
By gender, there were 140 males (90%) and 15 females (10%). By location, Seoul is the largest with 117 people, and lawyers in France and Singapore also joined. In this delegation, the 17th (27 persons) of the training center of Judge Lim also participated.
In a case where a reporter from Japan’s Sankei Shimbun was accused of defamation using the so-called’Sewol 7 Hour Suspicion’ column of former President Park Geun-hye, Judge Lim asked his junior judge to include in the ruling that the column was not true He was charged with intervening. However, Judge Lim was acquitted in the first trial court last year, and is scheduled to retire this month.
The delegation explained, “For the first time in the history of the constitution, an incumbent judge was unfairly and politically prosecuted.” “To defend the independence of the judiciary and the rule of law, and to defend Judge Lim Seong-geun, 155 lawyers from all over the country volunteered to the delegation.”
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