하도급법 상의 징벌적 손해배상제도의 고찰

Punitive damages are to emphasize civil penalties to assaulters commit malice torts, as a unique legal system in Anglo-American law. Purposes of punitive damages are not only punishments but deterrence and precautionary about intended torts. In U.K. appeared punitive damages (That occasion, U.K gave name ‘exemplary damages’.) permit very limited level, and U.S. expanded it continues subjects of debate, dealing with standards of several cases. It introduced treble damages like punitive damages distinguish other damages with revised Fair Subcontract Transaction Act in Korea. That is to say social efforts for reduction broken out problems when accomplished customary subcontract transaction. We didn’t insist entirety punitive damages, but treble damages role in limited, because it is in principal that primary adopt making up for the deficit about real damages in our civil law as civil liability. It is second reason that technique pirate in our Fair Subcontract Transaction Act resemble to treble damages in Intellectual Property law and The Patent law in U.S. . Finally, we can trace reason from South Korea-United States FTA didn’t accept but U.S. argued triple damages for IPL. Punitive damages are for appropriate protection method about torts that frequently happen in multiple modern society, and it is nothing question about it. But as early stage of introduction, there are vague its criterion or penalty. Hence we’ll have to establish this system through study problems with our conflicted legal system and cases in U.S.