"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."
[Frederick Douglass]
To me whether or not there would be "justice" would very much depend on the "legal process" and those at the apex who managed it.
ReplyDeleteAs I posted in another post :-
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We like to imagine the Legal Process and those who administer and practise it as being fair, equitable and honourable people.
Unfortunately, the process itself in reality is far from being fair and equitable as we would want it to be. This is inspite of the fact that civil servants in Singapore are paid million-dollar salaries to administer justice and high legal fees are chargeable in the profession.
Next, the legal profession may not be really fair and equitable to the layman. It is a profession where "paper" slurs and lies are granted exclusive privilege to exist, without any professional regrets, in a process to so call extract what is meant as "truth" only to these honourable souls. Truths in the verbal form could never be readily admitted, even with statutory procedural provisions, and are easily deemed to be not the real truths by those adminsitering justice.
I would consider equity in law as only an ideal principle which can never be purely administered and / or practised equitably by these destined "Honourable" souls. In later stage of their destiny, they would probably need to be more soul-searching.
It is not a process to have good experience. But if you have to experience it, fight it hard; or even cunning. If not, the honest may suffer and the cunning may be taken as truthful.
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Because this process to justice in itself is designed to be oppressing even to the strong-willed ignorant layman who is seeking justice with his own limited resources. It is a process full of technical traps and subjective to the interpretation of those "learned" souls.