lay person

"You know, living in Sussex, you can't not but become a passionate gardener. So I've had a lot of questions about how one stores seeds as a lay person, and I've learned a lot about that. My seed management has definitely, definitely improved."

The meaning is not something that a lay person can necessarily intuit.

“Even a lay person has the common sense to see exigent circumstances exist to enter these homes,” he said.

"These forms are really difficult to navigate as a lawyer, so for a lay person I can see how it would be quite terrifying," she added.

He ruled that the cited remarks “cannot raise a substantial doubt about my impartiality in the mind of a fully informed, disinterested lay person.”