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Record 1,  Textual support,  English

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The term "lay member" has been in use for a long time to describe tribunal members without a legal qualification, or sometimes those without a medical or other easily definable professional qualification. Even if the term is now normally absent from the legislation governing tribunal systems; it is still in common use colloquially among tribunal members, and often forms part of the language of recruitment procedure.  2, record 1, English, - lay%20member

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Non-legal members are not on tribunals just to make up the members, or to provide some balance or untutored "common sense;" nor should they feel they are representing the "person in the street" (which is the role suggested by the term lay-member).  2, record 1, English, - lay%20member

Record 1,  Textual support,  French

Record 1,  Textual support,  Spanish