– This will improve legal certainty in Norwegian courts, says Christian Democrat Kjell Ingolf Ropstad NRK Tuesday night.
It was graded as first reported that Democratic Party and the Conservatives have now been joined by FRP on the 129 years long legal tradition with jury system now coming to an end.
FINISHED: Jury scheme was introduced in Norway in 1887. Now it towards the end.
– A prerequisite for that we support meddomsrett is that court decisions must be justified. It will be the most important measure for many years to improve legal certainty, says the Progress Party justice policy spokesman, Ulf Leirstein, said.
Facing NRK says Leirstein that he believes the jury has outlived its usefulness and that the less and less being used in criminal cases.
– We have always been keen to ensure laity representation on a jury, and in a meddomsrett we will also obtain substantial element of laymen. Having now already majority in Parliament without us, so we thought that it is better that we are and have one hand on the wheel, says Leirstein NRK.
Left fears jurists gets the upper hand
According to Aftenposten believes the Conservative Party, Progress Party and Christian Democrats that the new scheme could be in place as early as summer next year.
DISAGREE: Iselin Nybø the Left is concerned that the trials carried on of lawyers, not people, premises when the jury system removed.
Support Party Left being sidelined. Justice Political spokeswoman Iselin Nybø are afraid that the principle that people should be judged by peers, now weakened.
– When just men meet lawyers, I am concerned that the lawyers will dominate discussions. They get the upper hand, she says to NRK.
Controversial
Today is it that appeals where the accused risks with than six years in prison, treated by a jury. It consists of ten members, preferably five women and five men.
Now there will be an end to the ten representatives of people with a simple “yes” or “no” to decide whether the accused should be tried or go free.
The scheme has long been controversial.
Many lawyers and politicians have been critical of the jury does not give reasons why they think that someone is guilty or innocent. People can thus sentenced to long prison terms without knowing what made that ruling was that it was.
Today is also the case that professional judges can put the jury’s verdict aside. Then it has a new trial to which a meddomsrett with three professional judges and four lay judges get the last word.
– This shows that meddomsretten also today is the rule of law guarantee. The lawyers have already today the last word in that they can set aside the jury’s verdict, saying Ropstad.
KrF victory
He has long worked to get the FRP to support representative proposal KrF delivered in December, where the party advocated that Parliament should “ask the government propose repealing the jury system and replace it with meddomsrett.”
It is this proposal parliamentary majority now endorses. The details of the new scheme is not clear. Ropstad underlines that whatever is talk of a meddomsrett where the majority are lay people.
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