110925 Updates to Han Geng’s lawsuit with SME

Earlier this was reported in Korean news: “Slave Contract Nullified” Super Junior’s Hankyung Appeal Withdrawn (link to an English translation by soluna413 @ tumblr)

However, since it seems like a lot of people have trouble understanding the legal terminology used, our admin Windchime wrote up this summary based on a Chinese translation to explain everything:

On December 21st 2010 the Courts declared Han Geng the winner of his case against SM, at that time SM declared that “they can not accept the decision” and filed an appeal attempting to get the courts to overturn the decision roughly 2 weeks (?) later. I don’t really remember the exact date. No major news sources really reported about it, so maybe a lot of ppl never knew that SME appealed.

So technically Han Geng hasn’t exactly won the case yet due to SME appealing. However, since he has the court decision made on December 21st to back him up, his contract with SME is considered invalid unless SME wins the appeal. However, his contract would still exist unless SME loses or drops the appeal. (If anyone still searches Han Geng on naver, they will see that he is still listed as under SME, this is because, due to SME appealing the court’s first decision, Han Geng’s contract with SME still exist, he just is not bound by it until further court notice. Naver has stated after an inquiry that when Han Geng officially wins the appeal, they will remove SME as his company.)

This new thing that Han Geng just filed is requesting the courts to drop SME’s appeal since it’s not going anywhere. Meaning it’s pretty much asking the court to declare SME’s appeal invalid. If Han Geng’s petition is granted, then SME will be forced to drop the case, and the first court decision, which is Han Geng winning the case will remain. Meaning that if he wins this case he would be officially free of SME.

This new thing Han Geng is filing is pretty much him say to the courts that he’s doesn’t want to waste time with SME anymore and he thinks SME’s appeal is ridiculous so he can officially be free.

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Source: onewhomust @ geng-bao.net
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