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ABBREVIATION &
CODES
KCCR : Korean Constitutional Court Report KCCG :
Korean Constitutional Court Gazette Case Codes HunKa£º constitutionality case
referred by ordinary courts according to Article 41 of the Constitutional Court
Act HunBa£º constitutionality case filed by individual petitioner(s) in the
form of constitutional complaint according to Article 68 (2) of the
Constitutional Court Act HunMa£º constitutional complaint case filed by
individual petitioner(s) according to Article 68 (1) of the Constitutional Court
Act HunRa£º case involving dispute regarding the competence of governmental
agencies filed according to Article 61 of the Constitutional Court Act
£ª For example, "96 HunKa 2" means the constitutionality case referred by an
ordinary court, the docket number of which is No. 2 in the year 1996.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Case
1. Special
Act on Expedited Litigation Case 2. Prosecutor's
Decision Not to Indict Case 3. Preventive
Confinement Case 4. Right
to Information Case 5. National
Assembly Candidacy Deposit Case 6. Military
Discipline Case 7. Lawyers
Act(Office Location Restriction) Case 8. Legislative
Conference for National Security CaseAct Case 9. Land
Transaction Regulation Case 10. Article
13-2 of the Labor Dispute Mediation Act Case 11. National
Security Act Case 12. Corporate
Reorganization Case 13. Driver's
Duty to Report Car Accident to Police Case 14. Adultery Case
15. Preferential
Employment of Teachers Case 16. Judicial
Scriveners Act Enforcement Regulation Case 17. Lawyers
Act(Practice Suspension) Case 18. Coerced
Public Apology Case 19. Prescriptive
Acquisition of National Property Case 20. Mandatory
Insurance for Buildings with Four or More Stories Case 21.
Private
School Teachers' Three Fundamental Labor Rights Case 22. Right
to Have a Counterargument Published Case 23. Right
to Free and Confidential Communication with Attorney Case 24.
Extension
of Detention Period Prescribed by National Security Act Case
25. Mandatory
Registration for Periodical Publishers Case 26. Compulsory
Delivery of Copies of Periodicals Case 27. Presiding
Judge's Right to Direct Pleading Case 28. Seoul
National University's Entrance Examination Plan Case 29. Prohibition
of Intervention by Third Party Case 30. Retroactive
Effect of the Constitutional Court's Decision Declaring a Law
Unconstitutional Case 31. Restriction
on Billiard Hall Businesses Case 32. Foreclosure
and Dissolution of Kukje Chaebol Case 33. Immediate
Appeal against Release on Bail Case 34. School
Age Case 35. Release
from Position Case 36. Land
Excess-Profits Tax Act Case 37. Labor
Union Act Case 38. Censorship
of Letters of Prisoners Whose Convictions Have Not Been
Finalized Case 39. Obligatory
Domestic Motion Picture Showing Case 40. Special
Litigation on Patent Case 41. Mandatory
Confiscation Case 42. Apportionment
and Gerrymandering Case 43. Special
Law for the Punishment of Antinational Activists Case 44. Special
Law for the 5.18 Democratization Movement Case 45. Presidential
Financial and Economic Emergency Order Case 46. Review
of Article 29 (2) of the Constitution Case 47. Pre-Inspection
of Movies Case 48. Capital
Punishment Case 49. Liquor
Tax Act Case 50. Standards
for Protection of Livelihood Case 51. Prohibition
of Marriage between Persons with Same Surname with Same Ancestral
Line Case 52. Competence
Dispute beween the Speaker and Members of the National
Assembly Case 53. Preferential
Payment of Employees' Retirement Allowances Case 54. Article
79 (¥¤) of the Building Act Case 55. Gift
Tax on Matrimonial Property Distribution under a Divorce Case
56. Exceptional
Constitutional Review of Court Decisions Case 57. Article
46-3 of the Labor Union Act Case 58. Revocation
of Publishing Company's Registration for Publishing Obscene or Indecent
Materials Case 59. Prohibition
of Solicitation of Donations Case 60. Competence
Dispute between the President of the Republic and Members of the National
Assembly Case 61. Inheritance
of Debt by Default
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