lay judge, sometimes called a lay assessor, is a person assisting a judge in a trial. Lay judges are used in some civil law jurisdictions. Lay judges...

trials by introducing lay judges. Lay judges comprise the majority of the judicial panel. They do not form a jury separate from the judges, as in a common law...

2012; the first trial on January 10; Judgment Day on April 13, with the lay judge trial lasting 100 days. For the three murder cases, the prosecution provided...

this panel may include lay judges. Unlike professional judges, lay judges are not legally trained, but unlike jurors, lay judges are usually volunteers...

1924 abolishing juries and replacing them with the mixed system of judges and lay judges that is still used today. Germany's legal system is a civil law...

Italian court composed of two professional, stipendiary judges or giudici togati; and six lay judges or giudici popolari, who are selected from the people...

the introduction of the lay judge system, some lawyers and scholars have pointed out that the introduction of the lay judge system, in which citizens...

Lay judges in Taiwan are regulated by the Citizen Judges Act (國民法官法) passed by the Legislative Yuan in July 2020 and were introduced in January 2023. In...

2009, district courts try capital cases using the lay judge system, where three professional judges sit with six randomly chosen citizens. Five votes...

courts lay judges sit alongside professional judges. Lay judges participate in deciding both the facts of the case and sentencing. Lay judges are appointed...

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criminal cases in many common law judicial systems, but not all. Juries or lay judges have also been incorporated into the legal systems of many civil law countries...

Typically, a lay judge will serve one day per month in court during his or her tenure. In principle, any adult can become a lay judge. Lay judges must be Swedish...

jurors hear a trial, and whether the lay person is involved in a single trial or holds a paid job similar to a judge, but without legal training. In the...

professional judges and four lay judges. Lay judges are not considered to be representative of the population. About 75% of lay judges are nominated...

arguments); usually parents tend to be lay judges Flow judge (a judge who seeks to minimize intervention in the round by judging based solely on the arguments...

were filed. The case was decided jointly by a professional judge and three appointed lay judges. The trial started on 16 February 2009 in the Stockholm District...

passed on 22 July 2020, instituting a lay judge system with three professional judges along with six lay judges. The law took effect on 1 January 2023...

May 25, 2006, Lay was found guilty on six counts of conspiracy and fraud by the jury. In a separate bench trial, Judge Lake ruled that Lay was guilty of...

three judges: one of the "ordinary" judges of the tribunal and two lay judges. The ordinary judge acts as the presiding judge, the two lay judges as assessor...

professional judges (soudce) and advocates (advokát), in criminal trials also state prosecutors (státní zástupce), and sometimes lay judges (přísedící)...

composition with lay judges consists of the ordinary district judge at the District Court, acting as the chairperson, and two (or three) lay judges. The municipal...

qualified judge and three lay judges. In criminal cases where the penalty is imprisonment, the presence of lay judges is required. However, if a lay judge is...

Observers[who?] note that lay judges in Cuba play a far more dynamic role than the lay judges in the former Soviet Union. On a whole, lay judges tend to represent...

accountability of judges. The absence of democratic control through the jury or lay judge systems also contributes to the controversy surrounding judges. The jury...

single judge. In criminal cases where this is not the case, the judge sits with two lay judges. Special rules regarding appointment of lay judges apply...

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likely to test the fairness of Japan's judicial system—which operates a lay judge system and has the option of the death penalty in certain cases. However...

difficult for citizen judges to determine whether the death penalty would be appropriate in this kind of case under the lay judge system, which was started...

three judges, one professional judge (Berufsrichter) and two lay judges (Laienrichter). The lay judges are expert lay judges (fachkundige Laienrichter) and...