금지(유지)청구권의 일반근거규정 도입에 관한 연구

Abstract

In Korea, there is no general statutory authority to the injunctive relief exceptfor the individual ones to protect the respective rights. Therefore courts can notprovide injunction with the victims from whom can be taken their rights away. Itcreates a loophole in protecting rights from the interference. Sometimes the Korean Supreme Court has been trying to award injunction to thevictims without any statutory authorities. The Court made a ruling over theinjunctive protection to invade the human dignity, environmental rights, businessinterest etc. And the Korean Ministry of Justice has been preparing some bills forthe legislation to award the injunctive protection to all types of rights. Howeverthe new bills are based on the understanding that the legislation should bestipulated in the damages chapter of the Korean Civil Code. As we know, theinjunction is superior to the damages from the viewpoint of Law&Economics. Because it will induce people to engage in the voluntary exchanges to enhance theallocative efficiency as a whole for the society. So I insist that we stipulate the general statutory authorities independent fromdamages and the clause should include some requirements of irreparable damagesand undue hardship. But the requirement “irreparable injury should mean theadequacy of injunctive relief, not meaning any yield to the damages.