This is a great idea but I don't think it goes far enough.
It means that 12 lay people can eventually, after some coaching, study, and debate, understand a contract. Or one lawyer, presumably.
The problem remains though, that one lay person needs to understand it without study or coaching, and without taking days to do so. Most of us have probably clicked through hundreds or even thousands of EULAs and other crap without having days to understand each one. Every app, every shrinkwrap, your toaster, and even the bloody nav on your car with its OK button: there's just too much.
The jury should get as much time to read the contract as the average user spends reading the contract and should not get the help of a lawyer. If the company doesn't collect data about how much time users spend reading the contract, then it should be presumed that they didn't read it at all and then only terms that the jury can guess would be in the contract without reading it should be valid.
It means that 12 lay people can eventually, after some coaching, study, and debate, understand a contract. Or one lawyer, presumably.
The problem remains though, that one lay person needs to understand it without study or coaching, and without taking days to do so. Most of us have probably clicked through hundreds or even thousands of EULAs and other crap without having days to understand each one. Every app, every shrinkwrap, your toaster, and even the bloody nav on your car with its OK button: there's just too much.