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The science of justice: I think it's time we broke for lunch… | The Economist AROUND the world, courthouses are adorned with a statue of a blindfolded woman holding a set of scales and a sword: Justice personified. Her sword stands for the power of the court, her scales for the competing claims of the petitioners. The blindfold (a
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Human rights: Blind justice | The Economist 5 May 2012 ... THE story of how Chen Guangcheng, a 40-year-old blind villager, escaped through the prison-like cordon surrounding his home and ended up ...
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Justice in South Africa: Equal and colour-blind? | The Economist 25 Oct 2014 ... Oscar Pistorius's case has raised tricky questions about justice and ... Public confidence in the trial and the justice of the verdict has fallen.
Colombia: Should blind justice also be faceless? | The Economist 22 Apr 1999 ... ACCORDING to its attorney-general, Alfonso Gomez Mendez, Colombia's justice system—already burdened and ineffective—is in danger of ...
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