• I. Jurisdiction of the Jury and Lay Assessor Courts
— A. General Rules of Jurisdiction
— B. Lay Judges – by Choice or Law only ?
— C. The Importance of the Prosecutor’s Charging Policies
• II. Composition of the Court
• III. Role of the Lay Judges in the Taking of Evidence
— A. Jury Courts
— B. Courts with Lay Assessor
• IV. Which Factual and Legal Questions Must the Lay judges Decide and
How They Are Formulated
— A. Jury Court
— B. Court with Lay Assessors
• V. Deliberation and Deciding Questions of Fact, Law, and Guilt
— A Jury Court
— B. Court with Lay Assessors
• VI.
— A. Jury Court
— B. Court with Lay Assessors
• VII. The Appeal
— A. Jury Court
— B. Court with Lay Assessors
• VIII. Circumventing the Jurisdiction of the Lay Court
• IX. Who are the Lay Judges and How are they Selected ?
• X. Short History of Lay Participation in the Criminal Trial in Denmark
• XI. Empirical, Sociological, or Legal Studies of the Effectiveness of Lay Participation in Denmark
• XII. Criticism of Lay Participation in Scholarly Writings and in the Public
Sphere
• XIII. Reform Proposals
— Some defence lawyers have already spoken against all changes.
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