Except for petty crimes, which are tried before a single professional judge, and serious political crimes, all charges are tried before mixed tribunals on which lay judges sit side by side with professional judges.
You were encouraging him to lie to a tribunal, were you not? [Grayson was preparing an industrial tribunal case when he spoke to Mahmood].
3. With his trade union experience of helping to resolve staff grievances, Brian might become a lay member of an employment tribunal, dealing with disputes between employers and employees.
This means that although the Tribunal lies outside the normal hierarchy of the courts since it does not hear appeals from any courts, its opinions are binding on all other courts.
The tribunal is due to lay formal charges this month or soon after.
He said they should cut short the usual procedure & lay the dispute before an arbitration tribunal right away.
"We plan to participate in the working group on a climate tribunal, the idea to lay down a clear picture of who is responsible," Enrique Schwartz told me, a Chilean who works with a Buenos Aires based human rights group.
Isorni's only hope, in a proceeding covered intensely by the press, lay in an appeal to a different court: the tribunal of public opinion.
The Vatican tribunal is in fact composed entirely of lay people — three magistrates, appointed by the pope himself, and a presiding judge.
Among the alternatives Thomas mentioned were trial by judge alone; a tribunal of a judge and two or more lay people; and trial by a judge sitting with assessors.
