Supreme Court Reviews Allowing Late Submission of Appeals and Petitions Following Suspension of 'Court Electronic Litigation'

'Individual Rehabilitation Repayment' Payment Possible via Manual Transfer Method

The Supreme Court has announced that it will actively consider allowing "late submissions" at all levels of courts for parties who were unable to submit appeals or petitions for final appeals on time due to the suspension of the court's electronic litigation system.

On the 8th, the Supreme Court's Court Administration Office stated that it posted on the court's internal network the results of its review regarding relevant laws and major legal issues to ensure prompt and proper handling of various civil complaints and other tasks caused by the suspension of the electronic system.

The electronic litigation system was suspended from 8 p.m. on the 28th of last month until late afternoon on the 2nd of this month, and was temporarily suspended again during the weekend of the 5th and 6th. The problem occurred during additional data migration work to support the normal operation of the Suwon Rehabilitation Court and Busan Rehabilitation Court, which opened on the 1st of this month.

This caused disruptions in civil trials and other proceedings. Since the electronic litigation system was down, some services related to trial affairs, such as case searches on the court website, public delivery notifications, announcements of acquittal judgments, criminal deposit announcements, and online access to judgment documents, were suspended.

Accordingly, the Court Administration Office plans to allow individual trial courts to consider supplementing procedural acts (subsequent corrections) if there are cases where parties could not submit appeals or petitions for final appeals due to expiration during the system suspension period, in order to prevent situations where electronic document submissions were missed or the "effective date of deemed service" became unclear due to the suspension of some trial-related services.

For parties who could not submit electronically and instead submitted paper documents directly to the court, the office informed frontline courts that they should order the resubmission of electronic documents within a certain period, and if new electronic documents are submitted, the original reduced court fee benefits should be maintained.

In personal rehabilitation procedures, if the payment deadline for repayment was missed due to the system failure, or if the rehabilitation trustee could not transfer repayment funds to creditors, repayment funds will be sent to creditors via manual transfer, and if the court requests separately, the Court Administration Office plans to support the transfer process.

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