A Review of the Improvement of the Expert Evidence System under the Criminal Procedure Act - Focused on the Case of Intellectual Property Litigation -

As the number of professional lawsuits increases, many discussions are being made on improving the appraisal system to assist a judge. In particular, the importance of expert evidence in a trial for intellectual property rights is more emphasized because of its unique characteristics. Although the relevance of expert evidence is emphasized in a criminal trial, active discussions on system improvement have yet to occur. Therefore, the problems of the expert evidence system by order of a judge in the expert evidence systems of the Criminal Procedure Act(Articles 169–179-2) and the ways to improve the problems are examined. To that purpose, solutions to challenges, such as the specification of an expert witness, the method of an expert witness examination, the method of a report on expert evidence, and the anonymity of an expert witness, were sought.