논문 : 집시법상 해산명령에 관한 연구 -판례 분석을 중심으로-

By the Law on Assembly and Demonstration, police can order demonstrators of several types of illegal assembly·demonstration to disperse, such as unregistered, prohibition-noticed assembly and those being held in prohibited time and place. However, conditions and limitations about order of disperse by police need to be dealt with more precisely in accordance with the judgements by the supreme court that even unregistered or prohibition-noticed assembly and demonstrations should be dispersed under the conditions of generating substantial risk to benefits of people or public safety. This study aims to suggest conditions and limitations about ``disperse order`` by reviewing legal characteristics of the Law on Assembly and Demonstration and the supreme court judgements. ‘Disperse order’ in Administrative law is ``Police Forcing Order``. Most of the Police Order by police are Forbidding Orders because police order, in general, is brought to prevent a danger of damaging public safety and to eliminate damages that are already occurred. ‘Disperse order’ as a Police Forcing Order, by the Law on Assembly and Demonstration imposes duties to leave from a designated place. Accordingly, police law enforcement need the definite legal ground and interpretation. Legal precedents hold opinions that conditions where assembly is unreported or prohibition notice is given are not enough to impose disperse order. By the same token, disperse orders should be brought under the condition of the presence of direct and obvious danger to benefits of people or public safety. In this context, the interpretation of ‘danger’ is very important. When applying to assembly and demonstration cases, the level of danger can be interpreted ``potential`` as is the case with sedition, rather than ``realistic`` danger. Therefore, disperse order can be imposed if there is a possibility of direct and obvious danger. Again, the presence of potential danger is enough requirements. This means that disperse order can be imposed where collective assault, a menace, property damage and, arson are occurred or the organizer declare the end of the assembly or when there is a possible danger of disorder by violating a traffic order maintenance stipulation.