Next year, the Supreme Court will send notices to approximately 230,000 potential judges nationwide on the 16th.
The age to be selected as a lay judge will be legally reduced to "18 years old or older" from April next year, but the actual appointment will be from next year, and this time the same "20 years old or older" voters will be targeted. It has become.
Lay judge candidates are randomly selected from voters over the age of 20 each year, and the Supreme Court will send a notice on the 16th to about 230,000 candidates for next year.
A "survey form" is enclosed in the notification, and those who are over 70 years old and wish to decline, or those who have difficulty in serving as a lay judge due to illness or injury, etc. must write the reason and return it.
This time, materials for the new corona measures of the court are also enclosed, and efforts such as expanding the "council" room where judges discuss with judges and installing acrylic boards in the court are introduced. ..
According to the Supreme Court, more than 107,000 people have served as lay judges and supplementary judges since the lay judge system started in May 2009 and by August.
In April next year, the age of being selected as a lay judge will be reduced from the current "20 years old or older" to "18 years old or older" by law, but people aged 18 or 19 will actually be selected. Will be sent again next year and later, and the notifications sent on the 16th will continue to be over 20 years old.