The Continuing Struggle for Citizen Participation and Democracy
by
Dimitri Vanoverbeke
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Trial by jury is not a fundamental part of the Japanese legal system, but there has been a recent important move towards this with the introduction in 2009 of the lay assessor system whereby lay people sit with judges in criminal trials. This book considers the debates in Japan which surround this...