High Court rejects NewJeans appeal, upholding ban on independent activities

Members of Okay-Pop Woman Group NJZ, previously Newjeans, reply the questions of reporters after attending a listening to in regards to the request of their company to ban an order to ban their unbiased actions on the Central Court docket of Seoul within the capital within the capital on March 7. Picture: Yonhap by way of the Korea Herald

A Court docket of a Seoul was rejected Newjeans‘The final try and destroy a ban on Tuesday on the unbiased leisure actions of the group and to keep up an earlier assertion in favor of their company, Ador.

The Supreme Court docket of Seoul rejected a occupation submitted by the 5 members of Newjeans who’re awarded an order that forbade them to signal unbiased promoting contracts or pursue leisure work with out prior approval of Ador.

The court docket once more selected Ador, a label beneath Hybe, that his declare strengthened that the unique contracts of the group stay legitimate.

The authorized battle began in November, when Newjeans declared their contracts with Ador Unilaterally unilateral, close to a breach of belief. Since then, the group has tried to work independently beneath the title NJZ.

In response, Ador introduced an order in January, which granted the Central Court docket of Seoul in March, forbidding members to behave outdoors the administration of the company.

After the court docket had rejected the objection of the group in April in April, the members escalated the case to the Supreme Court docket, which now additionally determined in favor of Ador.

In Could, the Central Court docket of Seoul additionally accredited the request of the Company for an oblique obligatory efficiency towards Newjeans. The court docket dominated that every paragraph gained 1 billion ($ 733,729) for each leisure exercise that’s carried out with out Ador’s permission, based on the unique order.

Within the meantime, the present predominant factor to find out the validity of the unique contracts of Newjeans with the music label remains to be ongoing.

Newjeans has made it clear that they don’t seem to be going to return to Ador.

In the course of the second listening to of the present lawsuit of Ador to verify the validity of their unique contracts on 5 June, the group said: “The connection of belief was already fully damaged. We now have crossed a degree of no return”, including that “it is not going to be simple” to reconcile.