The phrase "a certain justice" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific type or aspect of justice that is not explicitly defined but is understood in context.
Example: "In the end, the court delivered a certain justice that resonated with the community's sense of fairness."
Alternatives: "a particular justice" or "a specific justice".
Yet there is a certain justice in the difficulties New Labour has encountered.
And Detective Inspector Piers Tarrant, a more recent addition (introduced in "A Certain Justice"), has applied to Special Branch.
Given all the accusations they have made about the financial motives of climate change "deniers," there is a certain justice in having their own finances investigated.
Though fresh evidence could always push the usage back even further, there's a certain justice to setting the record straight, more than three decades after the fact.
If Mr. Ebbers is guilty, there is a certain justice in the fact that he did not sell more stock and will probably wind up broke.
There was a certain justice in these actions, he declared, in that "she had returned to the level of life which she proposed for her people".
Be assured, he said, that those people would receive "a swift and certain justice".
WASHINGTON — President Obama on Friday sought to assure family members of Americans who were killed in the Sept. 11 attacks and the bombing of the destroyer Cole that the terrorism suspects would be prosecuted and brought "to a swift and certain justice".
No one who watched Muammar Gaddafi being killed by his captors can avoid feeling that procedural justice was being defiled even as a certain historical justice was being meted out.
"Although Proposition 66 claims it will fix California's death penalty system, it will in fact only spread its problems to the county-level, clogging up our court system without ensuring swift and certain justice," she said in a statement.
There would be a certain poetic justice to that.
