SOME THOUGHTS ON JUSTICE

 

                                SOME THOUGHTS ON JUSTICE

Justice may be defined as fair treatment of people based on the laws of the land. It is delivered by the various types of existing courts. The litigants hope for speedy conclusion of the legal proceedings , but this seldom happens.  Hence, the proverb : justice delayed is justice denied.

In a story by the  Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (1828 -1910)  a case takes thirty years to come to its conclusion. Therefore, Tolstoy gives it the appropriate title God Sees the Truth but Waits.

Since an aggrieved plaintiff expects fair play, impartiality, objectivity, neutrality and lack of prejudice in the case filed by him but does not get it, he wastes no time to say : justice is blind.

  The English essayist and poet Joseph Addison (1672-1719) says : To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to  the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

Another English essayist Francis Bacon (1561-1626) who himself served as Atorney General says: “Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.              

Finally, what the English poet-dramatist William Shakespeare (1564-1616) saiys: Be just and fear not; let all the ends thou aimest at, be thy country’s, thy God’s, and truth’s.  

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G.R.Kanwal

1^st July 2024