Oh Seok-joon, candidate for the Supreme Court. random news
Candidate Seok-jun Oh (19th class of the Judicial Research and Training Institute) rose to the position of the first Supreme Court justice of the Yoon Seok-yeol administration. After 119 days, the appointment proposal crossed the threshold of the National Assembly, ending the longest vacancy for a Supreme Court justice.
Candidate Oh said in a statement immediately after the tour of the National Assembly’s plenary meeting on the 24th, “I am extremely grateful that the process of consenting to the appointment of the Supreme Court of the National Assembly has been successfully completed.” “I will do my best to make fair and just judgments that all citizens can accept, judgments that maintain equality before the law, and balanced judgments that can unite our society while fulfilling my duties as a Supreme Court justice in the future,” “I will not lose my original intention until I finish my duties as a judge of the Supreme Court,” he stressed.
Candidate O has been drifting, such as the suspension of the Supreme Court as well as the Supreme Court, as the appointment was not approved by the National Assembly for 119 days from the completion of the confirmation hearing at the end of last August until now. Day. This is the longest record of 108 days, which is longer than the period of vacancies in former Supreme Court Justice Park Sang-ok. The opposition disagreed with the legal rulings made by Candidate Oh in the past, such as the 2011 ruling that the dismissal of a bus driver who embezzled 800 won was justified, and the 2013 ruling that canceled the dismissal of a prosecutor who received entertainment from a lawyer. The ‘recognition’ with President Yoon also continued. However, the Democratic Party also changed its mind about the long-term vacancy of Supreme Court justice and tried to pass the appointment proposal, but the Itaewon disaster broke out and the vacancy continued for a long time.
On the afternoon of the 24th, at the full meeting of the National Assembly, the motion to appoint a Supreme Court Justice (Oh Seok-joon) is passed. random news
Since the successor of former Supreme Court Justice Kim Jae-hyung (district 18) was not filled for almost three months, rulings of 330 cases (200 civil cases, 86 criminal cases, and 44 special cases) served as the main a judge who had been adjourned without promise. Among them, sensitive issues such as the sale of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries assets related to compensation for victims of forced labor during the Japanese occupation. Attention was also drawn to the fact that the backlog of cases intensified as cases which should have been allocated to the successive magistrates were additionally distributed to other magistrates. Supreme Court justices, who deal with around 3,600 chief justice cases a year, are said to have taken on an additional 500 cases during this vacancy.
After a while, the National Assembly agreed to appoint a new Supreme Court judge, giving the Supreme Court a breath of fresh air. The legal community believes that Candidate Oh is very likely to take over the case of former Supreme Court Justice Kim, who retired from office. Under current law, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court can adjust the composition of subdivisions or the classification of cases if there is a change in the composition of Supreme Court Justices due to the resignation or inauguration of Supreme Court Justices. The inauguration ceremony of Candidate Oh as Supreme Court Justice is scheduled to take place on the 25th at the main building of the Supreme Court in Seocho-dong, Seoul.
