Excellent letter in the Guardian following up an earlier columnist’s suggestion that the jury system has outlived its usefulness and should be done away with:

I’ve heard people who’ve done jury duty say that there always seems to be one opinionated so-and-so who thinks he knows everything, agrees with others about nothing and is incapable of following the simplest reasoning. They were fortunate – when I was a juror, I had 11 such people to contend with.
RJ Dow
Sheffield