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Jipyong and Duroo were Honored with “Public Interest Award” at the 6th Korea Legal Awards

2023.12.12

<div style="text-align: justify;">On December 12, 2023, Jipyong and Duroo were honored with the “Public Interest Award” at the 6th Korea Legal Awards. 
 
The “Korea Legal Awards,” which is co-hosted by Money Today Co., Ltd. and the Korean In-House Lawyers Association, and co-organized by Money Today the L and Naver Law (Law N Media), grants an award in recognition of expertise and achievements of law firms in each field. 
 
Indefinite detention of foreigners under the Immigration Act declared unconstitutional 
 
Jipyong and Duroo secured the Constitutional Court’s decision that found Article 63(1) of the Immigration Act unconstitutional by a 6 to 3 panel of judges in a request for an adjudication on the constitutionality of the foregoing provision. The person who became the party to this case is a person who is from Egypt, entered Korea alone and unaccompanied in 2018 when he was 17 years old, and went to the Seoul Immigration and Foreign Affairs Office to apply for refugee status, only to be told that he needed to bring an adult with him. He was later detained by the Suwon Immigration and Foreign Affairs Office and ordered to be deported, and was placed in the Hwaseong Foreigners' Shelter. He spent 33. 1㎡ space with 25 adult men for a month, and with the help of a migrant refugee organization, he filed a lawsuit in 2019 to cancel the deportation order and protection order. The Suwon District Court rejected the petition on the grounds of violation of the excessive funding principle and violation of the due process principle, and the Constitutional Court held that the provisions of the Immigration Control Act, which were the basis for the indefinite detention of foreigners ordered to be deported, were unconstitutional. The case was handled by Park Sung-chul, Min Chang-wook, Cheon Young-seok, Pyo Seul-bi, Chae Soo-pyeong, Yoo Hyun-jung, and Jeon Sang-yong at Jipyong, and by Kim Jin, Mahanual, Lee Sang-hyun, Lee Han-jae, and Choi Choi Rok at Duroo. 
 
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Awards & Commissions Jipyong and Duroo were Honored with “Public Interest Award” at the 6th Korea Legal Awards 2023.12.12

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