Current mood:

bored

The last 2 weeks have been a bit of an eye opener... I've been on jury service... Although I only had to sit on one case during that time, it just highlighted how ridiculously turgid the criminal justice system is. The case I was on, if it had been conducted as a solid block would probably have taken 2 days, however due to the court not starting until 10 and the variously finishing at 3, 4 and 4:30 with an hour for lunch and a couple of other recesses took 4 (of which 3.5 hours were spent in retirement). the costs for the jury alone were in excess £3000! I also had to go in on one other day but an hour after they assembled the standby jury the defendant pleaded guilty and we were released.

 After all that I didn't get to send anyone down, we acquitted the bloke in the 4 day trial because the prosecution case wasn't good enough.

And now, here I am on a Friday afternoon feeling meh and not wanting to do anymore work today.