Answering the question above: The Beraisa teaches (R. Shimon bar Yochai) - "And these are the judgments you should place before them'' - the Torah first talks about monetary matters concerning a Jewish slave and then later talks about theft and injuries. The Tana of our Mishnah is doing the same thing.

This follows R. Yosi bar Chalafta - once, two people came before R. Yosi bar Chalafta. They asked him to judge them in a Din Torah.

He said to them: "I do not know how to judge a din Torah; rather, the One who knows people's thoughts should punish those who are lying. Do you both accept whatever ruling I make?''

When a person would come before R. Akiva for a judgement, R. Akiva would say to him - You should know before Whom you are standing - before the One who said that the world should exist, as the pasuk states (Devarim 19:17), "Then the two men between whom the controversy exists will stand before Hashem'' - but not before Akiva ben Yosef.

Beraisa: 40 years before the Beis HaMikdash was destroyed, the ability for Sanhedrin to judge capital cases was removed; and in the days of Shimon ben Shetach, the ability to judge monetary cases was removed.

(R. Shimon ben Yochai): Baruch Hash-m that I cannot judge, so I cannot be punished if I do not judge correctly.