Gyun-yong Lee, the new president of the Daejeon High Court yunhap news
New Daejeon High Court Chief Lee Gyun-yong said on the 9th, “We have to make ourselves a courageous judiciary with a resolute attitude against unfair influences such as political power, public opinion, and internal interference.”
In his inauguration address, Mr. Lee said in his inauguration address, “The current reality surrounding the court is a terrible situation in which the authority and trust of the court collapse, such as the trust in the judicial decline and the court deteriorating into mockery.”
In addition, “the word’by the people, for the people’ based on Article 1(2) of the Constitution does not mean that decisions are made based on collective emotion expression.” “The dangerous public opinion that tries to prioritize biased claims over the actual law is shaking the whole society and threatening the courts.”
“The most reliable and clear way to restore the trust of the fallen judiciary and the authority of the trial is to realize the rule of law,” said High Court, “based on the unchanging and uncompromising ideology of “changing reality” “It may be a single path that can only be reached through fair and faithful court proceedings, an essential area of the judiciary that maintains a responsive attitude.”
“Even though’changing reality’ appears to be a difficult situation, we must go through it.” He added, “It seems that people with’immutable ideology’ are always a few compared to those who are attracted only to’changing reality’ In the end, history proves that this minority has advanced history and brought society into a new stage of development.”
He said, “At this point when politics is controversial over the politicization of the judiciary that swallows up the rule of law, we must not forget that the public’s trust is supported by the appropriateness of the details and procedures of the court, and the neutral and fair attitude of judges.” I did.
Lee, who is from Busan, graduated from Busan Jungang High School and Seoul National University, and passed the 26th bar exam in 1984. He served as a judge of the Supreme Court, Chief Justice of the Seoul Southern District Court, and Chief Judge of the Seoul High Court.
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