Sentence examples for lay judge from inspiring English sources

The lay judge system allows members of the public to work alongside professional judges to determine guilt or innocence and decide on a sentence.

Pam has worked in education, health and in public and parliamentary affairs and serves as a lay judge on the Employment Appeal Tribunal.

A qualified teacher, she has worked in education, health, public and parliamentary affairs and has served as a lay judge on the Employment Appeal Tribunal since 2002.

On Japan, the topics of discussion ranged from concrete issues, such as the impact of proposed changes in the country's Prosecutorial Review Commissions, to more abstract matters like the potential for the new lay judge system to modify Japan's cultural hierarchy of language.

In February 2010, Valerie Hans, Professor of Law at Cornell Law School and co-author of American Juries: The Verdict, presented a paper on 'Deliberative democracy and Japan's lay judge system' at the inaugural East Asia Law & Society meeting in Hong Kong.

Immediately after his crimes last summer, a man named Thomas Indrebo observed online that "the death penalty is the only just sentence in this case!!!!!!" Indrebo was later assigned as a lay judge in Breivik's trial and had to be dismissed because of his comment.

The lay judges decide all questions of guilt and punishment jointly with the professional judges.

In some nonjury criminal cases, lay judges sit alongside professional judges and have an equal vote.

If there is still hope, it lies with those lay judges.

In Copenhagen there is a Maritime and Commercial Court, which also uses lay judges.

In England part-time lay judges greatly outnumber full-time professional judges.