‘Yoon Disciplinary Cancellation Lawsuit’ Postponed Again... Ministry of Justice Requests Date Change

Court Sets October 18 for Pretrial Conference... First Trial Lost, Appeal Underway

President Yoon Suk-yeol is answering reporters' questions as he arrives at the Yongsan Presidential Office Building in Seoul on the morning of the 22nd. [Image source=Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Reporter Heo Kyung-jun] The trial for President Yoon Seok-yeol's lawsuit seeking the cancellation of the disciplinary action against him as Prosecutor General, which had been postponed once, has been delayed again at the request of the Ministry of Justice.

According to the legal community on the 22nd, the Administrative Division 1-1 of the Seoul High Court (Presiding Judge Shim Jun-bo) changed the preparatory hearing date originally scheduled for next month on the 16th to October 18th.

The Ministry of Justice newly appointed lawyers Kim Jae-hak and Bae Tae-geun from the Korea Legal Aid Corporation as litigation representatives on the 14th, and submitted a request for a change of date to the court on the 19th.

Originally, the Ministry of Justice's litigation representatives for this case were lawyers Lee Ok-hyung and Wi Dae-hoon, who were appointed during the previous administration, but they were successively dismissed after Han Dong-hoon took office as Minister of Justice.

President Yoon received a two-month suspension disciplinary action from the Ministry of Justice in December 2020, when he was serving as Prosecutor General, for reasons including the creation and distribution of documents suspected of surveilling major trial divisions, obstruction of the Channel A case inspection, interference with the investigation of the Channel A case, and violation of political neutrality as a prosecutor.

President Yoon applied to the court for a provisional injunction to temporarily suspend the disciplinary action's effect and obtained a favorable ruling. He also filed a main lawsuit seeking cancellation of the disciplinary action but lost in the first trial, and the appeal trial is currently underway.

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