Lay judge special court on criminal - first notes

Abstract

The incoming of the 9099/95 law deve­loped a “microsystem”, nowadays, a “Special Courts System”. There, beside new ritual, rules and principles delineation, also came a new character: the Layman Judge. The same precept treated about Criminal and Civil procedure. Both of them clearly expressed the Layman Judge and the Conci­liator. Both have distinct attributions and qualifica­tion, assuming an incomparable importance in this scenario where the acts are not “a new way to do the same”. The purpose of this essay is the unders­tanding of the character of the Layman Judge in the criminal field.