Juridical-Legal Study of Collective Judgment

Collective judgment, also known as consultative judgment, is judging a civil or penal case by at least three judges in such a way that the verdict issued is accepted by all or majority of them. In the existing juridical and legal literature, this kind of judgment has not been discussed in details. In the present article, arguments posed by jurists and legalist for and against it have been introduced; and the arguments for it are considered as being more acceptable and, because of the conditions of judgment in the present age (age of Occultation) and complexities of the contemporary cases, the collective judgment has been deemed as being more reliable than the individual judgment