Elect judges using approval voting (more correctly, local, state and federal benches using this method). Approval voting allows election to a board or multiple member offices by allowing electors to cast first past the post votes for as many candidates as they please. This explicitly depoliticises things. Out of say fifteen candidates, the seven who polled the most votes would be elected to the High Court of Australia.
Allow the appointment of legal counsel to non-specialists.
Codify common law regularly.
The combined effect of above, the actual intelligence of the electorate (most people will still vote in lawyers or intelligent non-lawyers such as senior cops with law or criminology degrees), judicial peer pressure and the low probability of a complete dullard being elected allow for democracy, community values and the protection of minority rights.
Otherwise, judicial officers should be appointed on a renewable long term tenure (seven year terms, renewable once).
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Elect judges using approval voting (more correctly, local, state and federal benches using this method). Approval voting allows election to a board or multiple member offices by allowing electors to cast first past the post votes for as many candidates as they please. This explicitly depoliticises things. Out of say fifteen candidates, the seven who polled the most votes would be elected to the High Court of Australia.
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Allow the appointment of legal counsel to non-specialists.
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Codify common law regularly.
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The combined effect of above, the actual intelligence of the electorate (most people will still vote in lawyers or intelligent non-lawyers such as senior cops with law or criminology degrees), judicial peer pressure and the low probability of a complete dullard being elected allow for democracy, community values and the protection of minority rights.
Otherwise, judicial officers should be appointed on a renewable long term tenure (seven year terms, renewable once).