>>Isn't this a bedrock of British justice - "better that 10 guilty men should go free than one innocent man be condemned"<< Not an adage I have ever been terribly happy with, given that each of the 10 guilty men set free might then go on to murder, rape, burgle other innocent victims....And of course in England & Wales what we seem to get far too often is 10 innocents condemned & 10 guilty set free. Time to abolish the Jury System!