By Godfrey Smith – former Attorney General of Belize.
The canons of justice. The notion of justice
based upon the rule of law is a bedrock principle of western-style
parliamentary democracies. It supposedly places a higher value on
human life than a society based, for example, on a dictatorship. It
better upholds the dignity of the human person. But to understand
justice, it should be appreciated that it is a thing created by man and
administered by man. It does not, like the Shakespearean notion of
mercy, “droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath.”
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