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1. The plaintiff's appeal is dismissed.
2. The costs of appeal shall be borne by the Plaintiff.
Purport of claim and appeal
The first instance court.
Reasons
1. Basic facts
A. The Defendant filed a lawsuit against the Plaintiff seeking the payment of the construction cost (hereinafter “prior lawsuit”).
B. On July 1, 2015, the Plaintiff: (a) delegated an attorney-at-law with the duties of representation in the first instance court of a prior suit; (b) paid KRW 10,000,000 with the retainer fee; and (c) agreed to pay KRW 15,00,000 with the contingent fee.
C. On August 25, 2016, the first instance court rendered a judgment dismissing the Defendant’s claim. D.
D The plaintiff did not pay the success fee of KRW 15,00,000 and the delay damages after winning the lawsuit in the preceding lawsuit, the plaintiff filed a lawsuit against the plaintiff for the payment of the success fee of KRW 15,00,000 and was awarded a favorable judgment on July 5, 2017.
[Ground of recognition] Facts without dispute, entry of Gap evidence 1 to 4, purport of the whole pleadings
2. The assertion and judgment
A. The plaintiff's assertion that the defendant brought an unfair prior suit against the plaintiff and appointed a lawyer to respond to it, and that thereby, the plaintiff suffered damages equivalent to KRW 25,000,000 for the contingent fee of KRW 10,000 for the first time (15,00,000 for the first time) and damages for delay amounting to KRW 3,945,205 for delay.
(B) It is clear that the amount of damages is claimed as the amount of attorney's fees when claiming compensation for damages on the premise that the plaintiff's filing of the prior suit constitutes a tort, not simply seeking reimbursement of the amount of litigation costs incurred in the prior suit.
Judgment
In determining the scope of compensation for damages due to a false tort, there is no natural or factual causal relationship between the tort and the damage, and there is no ideological or legal causal relationship, i.e., proximate causal relationship.
However, under the Korean legal system that does not choose the mandatory lawyer system, it is under the Korean legal system.