[nraynaud]

In a lot of the world, justice decisions are made by professional judges who have a lot of literature (laws, other decisions, and interpretation by higher courts) to guide their decisions. Which has the upside of more informed decisions (in France, it's interesting to see that professional judges seem more harsh than public jury tho.)

[spacecowboy_lon]

Um you mean the Inquisitorial system - not sure I would be happy with a system that came out of revolutionly tribunals and the terror.

[nraynaud]

nope, you can have accusatorial system with professional judges, the procedure is not implied by the quality of the judge.