싱가포르의 사법개혁에 관한 연구 = A Study on Judicial Reform in Singapore

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Singapore's judiciary is internationally well-known for its integrity, impartiality, and efficiency in its trials. Singaporeans' trust in the Singapore judiciary is also high, which is well reflected in the public perception survey conducted by the State Courts of Singapore in 2020.
However, the Singapore judiciary has not always received such positive views. Until the late 1980s, the Singapore judiciary not only had issues such as backlogs, inefficient judicial administration, and limited access to courts, but also the citizens’ trust in the judiciary was not very high.
Various measures were implemented to solve these issues, but with little success. After analyzing the problems of several measures previously implemented in the 1990s, the Singapore judiciary re-implemented judicial reform measures based on a new approach. It is evaluated that many positive effects of the judicial reform measures implemented at this time have changed the institutional nature of the Singapore judiciary and laid the foundation for the Singapore judiciary to now be highly regarded.
This research report takes Singapore's judicial reform as the main subject of analysis and aims to explore in general Singapore's judicial reform carried out in the 1990s, when the Singapore judiciary began to address problems that persisted through the 1980s and transform itself into an efficient and highly regarded judiciary, and then examine what implications Singapore’s judicial reform can give us. Specifically, this report begins with an overview of the Singapore judiciary, then describes the problematic circumstances that led to judicial reform; analyzes the measures taken by the Singapore judiciary prior to judicial reform in the 1990s; analyzes the characteristics and core strategies of judicial reform carried out during the 1990s, the goals and means of the judicial reform, and its effects. In addition, this report analyzes the characteristics of Singapore's judicial reform and concludes with a discussion on what implications those judicial reforms might suggest for us.