Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King 1963
Category: Justice & Sentencing
One of the problems of our society is that we spend too much time thinking about punishment and not enough about prevention.
Roy Hattersley 17/12/1990
Category: Justice & Sentencing, Rule of Law
No one has yet been able to find a method of depriving a British jury of its privilege of returning a perverse verdict.
Lord Goddard 1955
Category: Justice & Sentencing
The real truth is, the number of convicts is too overwhelming for the means of proper and effectual punishment. I despair of any remedy but that which I wish I could hope for - a great reduction in the amount of crime.
Robert Peel
Category: Justice & Sentencing, Prison
The real price one pays for a lay magistracy is, of course, undue lenience.
Lord Hailsham
Category: Justice & Sentencing
