.]]A judge or justice is an official who presides over a court. The powers, functions, method of appointment, discipline, and training of judges vary widely across different jurisdictions. Judges in the legal system There are significant differences between the role of a judge in the common law system descended from British practice, and civil law systems descended from continental European judicial practice. The descriptions below are necessarily archetypical. Details vary from judicial system to judicial system. In many cases, the judicial systems have experienced convergent evolution, expressly or unconsciously adopting similar practices or operating in a manner that minimizes the impact of formal differences between the archetypical role of each system's judges. For example, while common law judicial procedure generally contemplates a single evidentiary trial, many cases are actually resolved through testimony t

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