If, say 90% of the population is Christians, what is wrong with having a panel with 90% Christians? What would you have felt if 99% of the poplation is atheist and 50% of the panel is Christian for the sake of balance?
What does it mean to have a balance of opinion?
If we must have every religious group in the panel, we will need: all sect of Christians (a couple hundred), Islam (at least 2), Hindu (a few million), Jedian , IPUian...etc
A secular society would just NEGLECT the religious background of someone. Instead, try to listen to their reasoning.
If the government do adopt such a policy, HK can properly be called procecuting all religion.
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Rather, I suggest following the current mechanism of the judical system. Have citizen randomly poll into the panel. Make it illegal for failing to attend with no proper reason. Provided that the sample is large enough (statistically, a dozen or so will be good enough for a million people), it will reflect the public opinions properly.
In order to fix loop holes, there can also be a repeal policy. Cases should be repeal a couple of times even if nothing change to ensure that the sample is representative.
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For your interest, the current situation
http://www.judiciary.gov.hk/tc/crt_services/pphlt/html/oat.htm
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if 終審法院首席法官 (current one 李國能)is a Christian, we are stuck with Christian. If all the volunteers are Christian, we are stuck with Christian (in fact, it is how the agency get hijacked now. Because we did not have enough volunteer ._.)
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For the different function of the different department, we have this from the goverment
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.. 審 裁 處's work is like a jury in a court!
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