When a judge who is a member of a panel is recused, the court to which said judge is assigned must make the ruling. In this case, when the court is a district court, the ruling must be made by a panel.
合議体の構成員である裁判官が忌避されたときは、その裁判官所属の裁判所が、決定をしなければならない。この場合において、その裁判所が地方裁判所であるときは、合議体で決定をしなければならない。
When an individual judge who is assigned to a district court or a judge assigned to a family court is recused, a panel which is assigned to the same district or family court must make the ruling. When an individual judge who is assigned to a summary court is recused, a panel which is assigned to the district court which has jurisdiction must make the ruling; provided, however, that when the recused judge admits that the recusal has cause, such ruling will be deemed to have been made.
地方裁判所の一人の裁判官又は家庭裁判所の裁判官が忌避されたときはその裁判官所属の裁判所が、簡易裁判所の裁判官が忌避されたときは管轄地方裁判所が、合議体で決定をしなければならない。ただし、忌避された裁判官が忌避の申立てを理由があるものとするときは、その決定があつたものとみなす。
The recused judge may not participate in the ruling prescribed in the preceding two paragraphs.
忌避された裁判官は、前二項の決定に関与することができない。
When the court is unable to make a ruling because of the withdrawal of the recused judge, the ruling must be rendered by the next higher court.
裁判所が忌避された裁判官の退去により決定をすることができないときは、直近上級の裁判所が、決定をしなければならない。
summary court
簡易裁判所
One of the four kinds of lower court (下級裁判所) beneath the Supreme Court, with the high courts (高等裁判所), the district courts (地方裁判所) and the family courts (家庭裁判所) (Courts Act, Article 1, and Article 2, paragraph (1)). A summary court has jurisdiction at first instance over civil claims whose value does not exceed 1.4 million yen, other than claims in administrative cases, and over criminal cases for offences punishable by no more than a fine or for which a fine is one of the penalties the law allows, among others (Article 33, paragraph (1)). A petition for court mediation goes, unless a special rule says otherwise, to the summary court for the place where the other party lives or has its business office or other office, or to a district court or summary court the parties agree on (Civil Mediation Act, Article 3, paragraph (1)).
Written by AI using Courts Act, Arts. 1, 2, 33 and Civil Mediation Act, Art. 3 as a reference.