The phrase "a failure of justice" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where the legal system does not achieve a fair or just outcome.
Example: "The wrongful conviction of an innocent man was a clear failure of justice that shook the community."
Alternatives: "injustice" or "miscarriage of justice".
Muzzling justice is a failure of justice.
They are (perhaps properly) outraged by what they perceive as a failure of justice in Turner's case.
But the four hundred and fifty thousand Americans already in jail for breaking the drug laws also represent a failure of justice, and an even bigger failure of policy.
Many people feared a failure of justice comparable to OJ Simpson's acquittal for the murder of Nicole Brown, his former wife, and Ronald Goldman, who had been visiting Brown's house on an errand.
Her emotional statement wouldn't be enough to result in longer jail time, and the nation reacted to what was widely viewed as a failure of justice.
Federal law suggests that if you can record someone's testimony in advance and let them go, you should do that, as long as "further detention is not necessary to prevent a failure of justice".
But together they suggest a failure of army justice.
The report, by the Riots Communities and Victims Panel, concludes that the riots were fuelled by a range of factors including a lack of opportunities for young people, poor parenting, a failure of the justice system to rehabilitate offenders, materialism and suspicion of the police.
The Court of Appeal criticised the absence of any legal due process at Guantanamo as a 'legal black hole' in a case brought on behalf of Abbasi last year, while the laws lord, Lord Steyn, has described the camp in a speech as a 'monstrous failure of justice'.
"As a lawyer brought up to admire the ideals of American democracy and justice," Lord Steyn said, "I would have to say that I regard this as a monstrous failure of justice".
"We think that this is a real failure of justice in this case because it's obviously politically motivated and not proportional to the supposed crime," Yulia Gorbunova of HRW told The Independent.
