Supreme Court Appoints 30 New Judicial Research Fellows with Legal Experience

The Supreme Court announced on the 29th that it will appoint a total of 30 legal professionals as new judicial researchers. This is the second time that judicial researchers with legal experience have been selected.

Supreme Court in Seocho-dong, Seoul.

With the increase in the number of judicial researchers from 350 to 400 this year, the Supreme Court selected 30 of the newly added positions as judicial researchers with legal experience.

The Supreme Court selected judicial researchers considering the demand and vacancy scale by high court region: 19 for Seoul High Court, 2 for Daejeon High Court, 2 for Daegu High Court, 2 for Busan High Court, 2 for Gwangju High Court, and 3 for Suwon High Court. Among the selected judicial researchers, the proportion of women is 43.3% (13 people).

The youngest among the newly appointed judicial researchers with legal experience is 26 years old, and the oldest is 38 years old. By occupation, 23 worked at law firms, 2 at government or public institutions, and 5 are former military legal officers.

Of the 25 candidates who completed the 'Judicial Researcher Candidate Training for Legal Professionals' conducted by the Judicial Research and Training Institute, appointments will be effective from the 1st of next month, and the 5 military legal officers scheduled to be discharged will be appointed from August 1st. The Supreme Court stated that since legal professionals serving as military legal officers are also considered legal professionals, the appointment process has been changed to appoint them through the legal professional judicial researcher selection procedure.

Judicial researchers assist judges in their judicial duties by preparing various review reports, researching legal principles and precedents, conducting literature surveys such as academic papers, and performing extensive investigation and research on specific cases.

A Supreme Court official said, “The judicial researcher system will help create conditions that allow judges to focus their capabilities on courtroom-centered trials, thereby contributing to increasing trust in trials and the judiciary,” and added, “It will also be an opportunity for judicial researchers themselves to cultivate their qualifications through practical experience.”

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