[WikiEN-l] How many Arbitrators should we have?

Thu Oct 6 18:17:27 UTC 2005

On 10/6/05, DF <dragons_flight at yahoo.com> wrote:
> How about a mixed system?  First, have a Supreme Court
> (or whatever we want to call it) whose membership is
> fixed in number and determined through an election
> process such as governs Arbcom now.  And then have
> lesser courts/magistrates/whatever confirmed through a
> process of community consensus such as occurs in RFA
> now?

That approach seems the most reasonable one I've heard of yet.  I
would add the provision that the ArbCom (or whatever you call the
highest level judicial body) has the authority to veto candidates for
magistrates, and to dismiss those who prove unsuitable later on.

Kelly