Amendment In Civil Procedure Law

1. Definition and Concept

In Civil Procedure Law, amendment can be defined as a legal remedy that allows a party to completely or partially correct procedural actions (within the scope of the prohibition on expanding claims and defenses) without the consent of the opposing party or the approval of the judge, provided that the necessary expenses are paid and the action is taken in accordance with the method specified in the Civil Procedural Code numbered 6100 ("Code") within the time period specified therein.¹ Although we refer to it as correction, not every correction is amendment. For example, the correction of material errors (Article 183) or the correction of a judgment (Article 304), which are regulated in the same distinction as amendment in the Code, are very different from amendment.² Although we define amendment as the correction of procedural actions without distinction, there are many actions that cannot be performed through amendment. To