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Saturday, November 18, 2006

Judges Under Pressure

Original posting, August 2006

A great idea: doing away with lay juries in complex cases that require specialist knowledge (that they don't have anyway) and replace with an expert panel. Rocket science stuff. 

Isn't that a good idea? Not for the judges, possibly. They might get tested on real technical points. It's always easier to run rings around the ignorant who have a lack of knowledge. The unsophisticated! But an expert panel who actually know a thing or two and probably understand fine detail rather well.

Points of law can always be thrown in though.

posted by Louis Brothnias @ 7:49 am