Yoon Seok-yeol's 'Prosecutor General Duty Suspension Cancellation Lawsuit', First Appeal Trial Next Month

President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol is attending the transition committee secretariat meeting held at the Presidential Transition Committee in Tongui-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul on the 22nd, delivering opening remarks. Photo by Dongju Yoon doso7@

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Hyung-min] The appellate trial regarding whether the suspension order issued by the Ministry of Justice to President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol, when he was Prosecutor General, was justified will be held next month.

According to the legal community on the 23rd, the Seoul High Court Administrative Division 11 (Presiding Judges Bae Jun-hyun, Lee Eun-hye, Bae Jeong-hyun) will hold the first hearing of the appeal trial for the cancellation lawsuit of the suspension order filed by President-elect Yoon against the Minister of Justice on the afternoon of the 20th of next month.

President-elect Yoon received a suspension order from the Ministry of Justice in 2020 while serving as Prosecutor General, and subsequently, the disciplinary committee decided on a two-month suspension. The disciplinary committee determined the punishment based on reasons including the creation and distribution of documents alleging surveillance of key case trial panels by the Investigation and Policy Office of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, obstruction of inspection and investigation of the Channel A case, and violation of political neutrality as a prosecutor.

President-elect Yoon filed administrative lawsuits arguing that the suspension and disciplinary actions did not follow proper procedures and that the grounds for discipline were factually incorrect.

The lawsuit related to the suspension order, for which the appellate trial will be held, was dismissed in the first trial on the grounds that "the plaintiff no longer has the interest to seek cancellation of this order, making the lawsuit inappropriate."

The lawsuit seeking cancellation of the two-month suspension disciplinary action also resulted in a ruling against the plaintiff in the first trial and is now awaiting the appellate trial.

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