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    There are countless and innumerable arrears in High courts and Supreme Court‚ and one crore and more in lower courts pending disposal. It is beyond dispute that credibility in courts to administer justice is almost shaken. The impending causes of the backlog of cases are in built arising out of wastage of time at several stages of the legal procedure at different levels of the hierarchal system. This can be overcome to a larger extent "Through a conscionable campaign of the judges by the judges for

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    The definition of justice is “Fairness of protection of rights and punishment of wrongs. While all legal systems aim to uphold ideal through fair and proper administration of the law of the land‚ it is possible to have unjust laws.” Justice is fairness‚ all people have equality and are treated equally‚ but they are also equally held accountable for the things they have done wrong. A dictionary definition of distributive justice is: “A concept that addresses the ownership of good in a society.

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    a critique of what John Rawls meant by ‘Fair Equality of Opportunity’ Introduction: The purpose of this essay is to discuss what ‘Fair Equality of Opportunity’ means and John Rawls view point on this subject. Rawls was a well known philosopher from the USA and arguably the most important political philosopher of the 20th century. Rawls is well known for using the basic structure of society as his subject matter and most famously for his work entitled‚ A Theory of Justice (1971). Here he explains

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    Each of these subjects differs in many ways yet is similar in many ways‚ like a magnetic object each has attracting and deflecting energy within them. The statement quoted by Sir Isaiah Berlin portrays his point of view of liberty‚ equality‚ and justice. He stated that a society can not have both absolute equality and liberty working together side by side. Meaning‚ that both of these are opposite of each other due to the nature of their laws. Achieving maximum liberty can give more power to the strong

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    Understanding the rationale behind law relating to bails requires the study of various stages of its development. In a primitive society bail has become the rule. The law of bails has become an important branch of the criminal justice administration system. The concept of bail emerges from the conflict between the police power to restrict the liberty of a man who is alleged to have committed a crime and the presumption of innocence in his favour. The police has been conferred with powers of arrest

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    Factors surrounding the theory The driving force behind RJ is to have everyone affected by the crime (offender and victims) assemble together. The attempt is to work out the situation in a humane and benevolent manner. The discussing groups will include a facilitator‚ the victim(s) and the offender. Some of the major issues discussed will be forgiveness‚ restitution‚ and restoration in an attempt to heal. The type of crimes dealt with in this setting are not of a punitive nature‚ and there may

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    essentially answer one question‚ what is justice? This question serves as a basis into the dialogues encountered in the literary work. Plato aims to answer this philosophical question through an analysis developed by Socrates; a Greek philosopher‚ prestigiously acclaimed‚ due to his analysis of such subjective thoughts. Justice can be classified in three subdivisions which include retributive justice‚ procedural justice‚ and social justice. Retributive justice can be best explained along the principle

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    An experiment is a study in which the researcher manipulates the level of some independent variable and then measures the outcome. Experiments are powerful techniques for evaluating cause-and-effect relationships. Many researchers consider experiments the "gold standard" against which all other research designs should be judged. Experiments are conducted both in the laboratory and in real life situations. Types of Experimental Design There are two basic types of research design: True experiments

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    Concept of Justice Chapter 4 Contents Origins of the Concept of Justice Components of Justice Distributive Justice Corrective Justice CHAPTER OBJECTIVES 1. Know the definitions‚ concepts‚ and origins of justice 2. Understand the components of justice including distributive‚ corrective‚ and commutative. 3. Be able to define procedural and substantive justice. 4. Understand the difference between the utilitarian rationale and retributive rationale under corrective justice. Professionals

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    1. Describe Goffman’s “moral career of the mental patient” through its three phases.  How is the patient’s self-identity thus gradually redefined in the context of the hospital as a total institution. The three phases of the mental patient according to Erving Goffman to me was very intriguing. The first phase is the prepatient phase this refers to the period in which the patient is admitted into the hospital this could lead to the next phase which is known as the‚  Inpatient phase which is the period

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