judiciary

• superior judges - lord justices of Supreme Court, lord justices of appeal, high court judge (hear appeals, high court first instance also)
• inferior judges - circuit, district, recorders (hear cases of first instance)

  criminal - conduct trials, sentence

  civil - hearings and remedies
• in both civil and criminal courts
• con - age, ethnicity, gender - bad composition, middle aged white men
• con - education, social background
• pro - legally experienced
• pro - legal qualifications
• pro - independent, free from bias
• -- outdated opinions, old
• --/++ privately educated, oxbridge etc