가정법원에서 장애인의 사법접근권 보장

The Right of Access to Justice of persons with disabilities should be guaranteed as legally binding rights. Since family cases generally involve issues between spouses, parents, and children and family courts handle a wide variety of cases involving domestic matters, The Right of Access to Justice of persons with disabilities is particularly important in Family courts. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities have provisions that States Parties shall ensure effective access to justice for persons with disabilities on an equal basis with others. In accordance with the Act on the Prohibition of Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities, courts must provide legitimate convenience to persons with disabilities to use substantially equal services in all legal proceedings. As a result of investigating the family courts, there are some problems that legitimate conveniences for the disabled was not practically operated and had many things to improve, such as the inability to provide basic convenience. In order to guarantee The Right of Access to Justice of persons with disabilities in family courts, It is necessary to introduce The Procedure Assistant System for the disabled in the family court procedure and to operate Exclusive Investigation System for persons with disabilities and a Statement Assistant with expertise in disability. The amendment bill of the Family Litigation Act needs to include The Procedure Assistant System and Exclusive Investigation System of the Act on Guarantee of Rights of and Support for Persons with Developmental Disabilities. In addition to legislation and other improvements, family courts and other courts need to check the current system to guarantee access to the disabled so that they can actually operate, and regular surveys and research should be continued to guaranteed The Right of Access to Justice of persons with disabilities.