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The use of lay judges in Sweden goes back to the Middle Ages.

=== Denmark ===

{{Further|Courts of Denmark}}

Approximately 15,000 lay judges currently serve in all Danish courts except the [[Supreme Court (Denmark)|Supreme Court]]. Lay judges are selected from the population for a period of four years, and have essentially equal influence to the professional judges in determining guilt and sentencing. In regional courts, two lay judges sit alongside one professional judge, and decisions are made by [[majority|simple majority]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.domstol.dk/til-dig-der-er/laegdommer/|title=Lay judges (Denmark)|publisher=Danmarks Domstole|language=da|date=15 November 2024}}</ref>

Civil participation in the judicial system, including criminal justice, is mandated by section 65 of the [[Constitution of Denmark]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ft.dk/da/folkestyret/domstolene/byret-landsret-og-hoejesteret/|title = Courts (Denmark)|publisher=Folketinget|language=da}}</ref>

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* {{cite book | title= A World View of Criminal Justice | series= International and Comparative Criminal Justice | first= Richard | last= Vogler | year= 2005 | publisher= Ashgate Publishing | isbn= 978-0-7546-2467-7 | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=rN90FSGhr-cC&pg=PA245}}

* {{cite book | title= International Territorial Administration: How Trusteeship and the Civilizing Mission Never Went Away | last= Wilde | first= Ralph | year= 2010 | publisher= Oxford University Press | isbn= 978-0-19-957789-7 | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Jny2BlhT0egC&pg=PA85}}

* {{cite journal | title= Criminal Justice in Germany | first = Hans Julius | last= Wolff | author-link= :de:Hans Julius Wolff (Rechtshistoriker) | journal= [[Michigan Law Review]] | volume= 42 | issue= 6 | date= June 1944 | doi = 10.2307/1283584 | at= footnote 7, pp. 1069-1070 | jstor= 1283584| url = https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol42/iss6/7 | url-access= subscription }}

* {{cite journal | title= Lay Judges in German Criminal Courts: The Modification of an Institution | first= Nancy Travis | last= Wolfe | journal= [[Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society]] | volume= 138 | issue= 4 | date= December 1994 | pages= 495–515 | jstor= 986849}}

* {{cite book | title= Der Hitler-Prozeß vor dem Volksgericht in München |trans-title=The Hitler Trial Before the People's Court in Munich | year= 1924 | ref= {{harvid|Volksgericht|1924}}}}

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== External links ==

*[http://www.kohus.ee/7545 Estonian lay judges] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091201183256/http://www.kohus.ee/7545 |date=2009-12-01 }}

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090331092838/http://www.moj.go.jp/ENGLISH/issues/issues03.html Saiban-in (Lay Judge) System], [[Ministry of Justice (Japan)|Ministry of Justice]]

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090522054432/http://www.saibanin.courts.go.jp/news/video5.html Government video explaining new jury system] (Japanese)