Sentence examples for lay judges from inspiring English sources
In Copenhagen there is a Maritime and Commercial Court, which also uses lay judges.
If there is still hope, it lies with those lay judges.
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.
But the lay judges, who have six ballots, include five women.
Under the Swedish legal system, appointments of lay judges to district and county courts are made by political parties.
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.
One former lay judge, Masayoshi Taguchi, was one of 20 who called on the Justice Ministry to provide greater detail about how executions would be carried out in order to help citizens make their decisions, according to the report. .
Japanese authorities sent two convicted murderers to the gallows on Friday, including one of whom was the first prisoner sentenced to death by the country's relatively-new lay judge system, in which regular citizens decide on the guilt and sentence of defendants. .
