일본에서 교통사고로 사망한 북한인의 손해배상청구권 상속에 관한 준거법 결정

Choice of Law on the Inheritance of the Right to Claim Damages of North Koreans who Died in a Traffic Accident in Japan -A Critical Study on the Nagoya District Court Decision Delivered on June 6th, 2014-

The following is a summary of the discussion in this article. First, it is not reasonable that the judgment of the Nagoya district court ruled only the governing law of inheritance, and that no ruling on the governing law of illegal act is lacking in international judicial thinking. Second, in order for the right to constitute the property of the decedent to become an inheritance, inheritance must be recognized by the governing law of the right (individual property). Third, in this case, although the objection to the Japanese law(renvoi) should be recognized by the clue of Article 45 (1) of the External Civil Relations Act of the DPRK, the ruling does not mention the contradiction at all. This is an obvious error. Fourth, North Korean law, unlike Japanese law and Korean law, takes a supported structure without taking an inherited structure about damages caused by life infringement. Therefore, the right to claim for damages caused by life infringement does not constitute inherited property. Fifth, the Gwangju District Court treated the case of North Korean people who had died in a traffic accident as a pure domestic matter, and made no judgment on the decision of the governing law. But this is a quasi-international judicial matter, so that it is reasonable to determine the governing law by analogy to private international law.