The Context of Justice

Justice. What is it? What mainly happens? There are so many questions that you can ask on a subject. But I’m here to tell you my view. And that is that I believe there are problems with justice. I mean, I’ve never been in trouble by the law. Then again, many people haven’t either; it’s just the minority of us who face the system. The word “Justice” is on everybody’s lips nowadays, and may mean almost anything. My version is that it is the quality of being just; honest and equal. Every now and again, there is always an issue that comes up in the media, bringing our ‘justice system’ into disrepair. Everyone has their opinions, and not everyone has the same view. The system is at work numerous times a day, from the local county court up to the high court of Australia. We trust the system to put criminals behind bars. But sometimes we end up putting everyday civilians in there as well. When these people are finally put out of their misery, the media jumps all over it, blaming everyone else, but sometimes it is the media themselves who have a major impact on these decisions. Many call it injustice. There are people out there who have used the loophole in getting themselves a get-out-of-jail-free card, and others who have been locked up, who are innocent and are destroyed both mentally and physically by one decision, one that will come back and haunt them for the rest of their lives.
Nearly thirty years ago, a woman by the name of Lindy Chamberlain was found guilty of murdering her nine-week old daughter Azaria. She was released only after a tourist found Azaria’s matinee jacket a couple of years after the trial. This case was a world-first: a dingo being accused of ‘taking my baby’. You either believed that the dingo took Azaria, or Lindy did it herself. In the extreme, some even believed that Azaria’s brother killed her, and that Lindy and Michael were covering up. Either way, it was the biggest talking point of that year, and was brought up again earlier this year....