Sentence examples for lay justice from inspiring English sources

Finally, there is the lay justice and corporate tendencies in the modern legal profession.

The report of a royal commission on justices of the peace in 1948 strongly defended the position of lay justice against public criticism; its cautious recommendations as to the appointment of justices and as to the organization of their courts were largely put into effect by the Justices of the Peace Act (1949) and the Magistrates' Courts Act (1980).

In 1964 elementary judicial training for lay justices was introduced; this is now regulated by the Judicial Studies Board.

"Mac is lying, and he knows he's lying," Justice said Thursday in a telephone interview.

The commission should look at extending the scope and remit of magistrates: a system in England, established almost 700 years ago by Edward I, to appoint voluntary lay people (justices of the peace), advised by a qualified lawyer, to administer prompt justice at reasonable cost.

"But you did lie," Supreme Court Justice Irwin D. Davidson said as he stared down at the witness in State Supreme Court.

Now what we were getting into, in addition to some lingering practical mysteries, was the human mystery: depression, loneliness, isolation, grief, intolerance, bodily pain, emotional pain, greed, laws, lies, truth, justice.

The issue, in his view, was the broader slide into mob rule happening throughout America, and he wrote, "When the question lies between justice regularly administered or the wild vengeance of a mob then there is but one side on which the patriot and Christian can rally".

But the foundations of the new system of international criminal justice lay not in Africa, but Europe.

He'll lay out a justice reform plan this week.

It was this community that lay behind Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes' applause for the new income tax.