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The Eastern High Court is to question all lay judges on Zealand and Lolland-Falster as to whether they are employed in the central administration or have a job which means they cannot be lay judges in the district or high courts.
The unusual move comes in the wake of a recent case in Copenhagen in which a lay magistrate should have been disqualified in three criminal cases. The man, who was employed by the Tax Authority, also served the minister and Parliament. As such he had contravened a ban on civil servants in the central administration also being lay magistrates.
