To clarify (my current understanding of the panel, based on having attended a meeting about it) – the panel is not something where all 10 people are supposed to reach agreement about anything. Individual cases will have 3-4 people assigned to them (most likely with the people involved in the dispute each picking a panel-member they trust).
The reason there are 10 is because it’s quite likely that serving as a panel member will seriously burn people out, and it seemed better to start with an excess of people who were interested in putting in the work for a time.
To clarify (my current understanding of the panel, based on having attended a meeting about it) – the panel is not something where all 10 people are supposed to reach agreement about anything. Individual cases will have 3-4 people assigned to them (most likely with the people involved in the dispute each picking a panel-member they trust).
The reason there are 10 is because it’s quite likely that serving as a panel member will seriously burn people out, and it seemed better to start with an excess of people who were interested in putting in the work for a time.
That seems more reasonable, and I think the mechanism of each person involved picking a panel member might work.