Lay People


	Lay People
	Advantages Open justice- judged by non professionals and independence from the government = fair... Juries - jury equity - Kronlid Juries - equity and fairness, they can ignore the judges direction, perverse verdicts show dissatisfaction with the law Mags - bring local knowledge to proceedings - Paul v DPP and they save the tax payer up to £100 million a year	Disadvantages Lack of legal knowledge, training and qualifications - R v Bingham - prosecution bias...justices and juries are seen as irrational and not up to the job - R v Younh Magistrates are over reliant on clerk - lack of ability and inconsistency in sentencing - R v Eccles Justices 1992 Juries - perverse verdicts result in undemocratic decision making as by pass laws made by Parliament
	Evaluation

Open justice- judged by non professionals and independence from the government = fair... Juries - jury equity - Kronlid
Juries - equity and fairness, they can ignore the judges direction, perverse verdicts show dissatisfaction with the law
Mags - bring local knowledge to proceedings - Paul v DPP and they save the tax payer up to £100 million a year

Lack of legal knowledge, training and qualifications - R v Bingham - prosecution bias...justices and juries are seen as irrational and not up to the job - R v Younh
Magistrates are over reliant on clerk - lack of ability and inconsistency in sentencing - R v Eccles Justices 1992
Juries - perverse verdicts result in undemocratic decision making as by pass laws made by Parliament

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