Title |
Time of Publication \
(No. of publications per year) |
Description |
Supreme Court Decisions Report |
Published on the 1 st and 15 th day of every month(24) |
Records of selected judicial decisions reached by
the Supreme Court within 1~2 months. |
Index of Supreme Court Decisions Reports |
Published semi-annually (2) |
Index of Judicial Decisions Bulletins published during the past 6 months. |
Collection of Supreme Court Decisions |
Published semi-annually (2) |
Collection of selected decisions and rulings reached
by the Supreme Court over a certain period of time.
The Judicial Decisions Reviewing Committee selects
these decisions and rulings. |
Collection of Full Bench Decisions of Supreme Court |
Published once every 5 years |
Decisions reached by the Court Full Bench are selected
out of the Collection of Supreme Court Decisions and
separately recorded and published every 5 years. The
collection is classified into civil, criminal, and
special cases. |
Commentaries on Supreme Court Decisions |
Published semi-annually (2) |
Supreme Court's judicial researcher, who has investigated
and researched the year's cases, points out purports,
adds personal opinions and explanations in essay format
on important decisions selected from decisions made
in each half-year period. |
Summaries of Supreme Court Decisions |
Published semi-annually (2) |
Supreme Court decisions and rulings are researched,
made abstracts of, and put together with the full text
of those decisions and related articles of Acts for
publication of civil and commercial cases in the first
half of a year and special, criminal, military cases
in the second half of a year. |
Collection of Lower Court Decisions |
Published semi-annually (2) |
High Court and District Court decisions that are
meaningful as precedents, valuable for research purposes,
serve as model cases, and deemed to be important reference
cases for lower courts have been selected and recorded
in the collection. |
Index of Lower Court Decisions |
Published every 5 years (1) |
A separate index based on five issues of the yearly
"Collection of Lower Court Decisions" |
Collection of Dissertations on Judicature |
Second half of the year (1) |
A collection of selected high-quality research papers
written by judges, officers and fifth degree or higher
ranking court officials on specific issues pertaining
to the law and practical aspects of court affairs. |
Judicature Research Materials |
Second half of the year (published upon need) |
A collection of research papers written by judicial
officers and fifth degree or higher ranking court officials
on specific issues pertaining to the law and practical
aspects of court rulings that were not previously published
in "The Collection of Researches on Judicature." |
Semi-annual Law Review |
Published semi-annually (2) |
A collection of treatises discussed or presented
during the Judicial Officer Seminars sponsored by The
Judicial Research and Training Center and various research
papers written after long-term overseas studies. |
Index of Legal Publications |
Published upon need |
Titles, descriptions, topics, and judicial decision
commentaries of domestic and Japanese separate volume
and periodical publications dealing with legal matters
were excerpted, classified and inputted into a database.
Part of this database that has been compiled over a
period of time has been published as an index in two
parts - Korean or Japanese Legal Publications.
As the database on western publications is already
constructed, publication of the Index of Western
Legal Publications is in schedule. |
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