2. Agenda What is lay judge system? Why introduce the lay judge system? How are the lay judges selected? How does the court look like and how is the trial proceeded?
3. What is a Lay Judge system? The system that allows us to take part in trails
4. Why introduce the Lay Judge system? It is meant to reflect the opinions of ordinary citizens to the court
5. How are the Lay judges selected? First, lay judge candidates are selected whenever there is a trial Summons and questionnaire are sent to the candidates
6. Selection of the lay judge Finally the lay judges are selected
7. How does the court look like? Image of the court lay judge judge lay judge prosecutor court clerk defendant lawyer
Selected from Japanese citizen over 20years oldJudges who are selected randomly from the citizencompare with Jury system - Sometimes the lay judge system is confused with the jury system but the two systems are different. In Jury system, every jury commissioner must agree on the decision, but in the lay judge system decisions are given by majority votes
