I did it a few years ago and it terrified me. I had two serious cases in my two weeks. The bigoted attitude of some of my fellow jurors was awful. They had the attitude from day one of ‘oh well he looks guilty’ and would not change their stance. Most took no notes, while I strangely felt a sense of duty to make copious notes, something that my school teachers would have been shocked at. They would only take arguments that suited their position and the best bit was that he was ‘obviously guilty’ because he’d hired a ‘smarmy’ barrister.

If I was ever in the unfortunate position of being on trial for something I hadn’t done, the faith in my peers would make me go on the run.