Article 36 (Prohibition of Referral by Court, Investigative Agency Officials)
A public official who belongs to a trial agency or an investigative one shall not introduce, refer or lead a party to a case or another interested person to a certain attorney-at-law or his office staff in connection with representation in a legal case or performance of a legal service prescribed by the Presidential Decree which his working agency is handling: Provided, That this shall not apply if the party of the case or service is a relative as referred to in Article 767 of the Civil Act. <Amended by Act No. 8271, Jan. 26, 2007>