범죄피해자변호인의 역할과 국선피해자변호인제도

The Role of attorney of victim and Nomination of a court-appointed attorney

There is an active international-wide movement to protect and support victims of crimes and the current international tendency is to encourage participation to the constructive criminal process rather than simple support for victims. Also, in Korea, there is an increasing improvement of discussion point from just dragging the recognition of necessity of victim protection to prepare reasons and details for the participation to criminal process as well as protection of victims under care. However, the consideration about right protection of victims and their participation to criminal process are naturally connected to the preparation of environment where there is attorney support and the necessity of attorney nomination to help victim with no legal information to operate their right more actively. Therefore, this essay considers the types of participation of victims to crimnal process to pretect their right and set range of attorney duty and nomination right of attorney by victim then review the allowance of system for a court-appointed attorney to victim who has difficulty to nominate layer along with role of attorney of victim.