Access to Justice Quotes

The law courts of England are open to all men, like the doors of the Ritz Hotel.

Delay in justice is injustice.

While service in the Department of Justice is itself one of the highest forms of public service, the Department further strides to increase access to justice for all and to strengthen our communities.

I'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity - these values mean a lot to me.

A fair judicial system takes time to work.

To deny political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect; of credit in the market place; of recompense in the world of work; of a voice among those who make and administer the law; a choice in the jury before whom they are tried, and in the judge who decides their punishment.

No person should suffer … without being brought to answer by due course and process of law

It is the right of government to protect the weak; it is the right of the weak to find in their courts fair treatment before the law.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.

There is too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.

Dwayne Betts is the kind of man who should be receiving awards from the Connecticut bar. Instead, he hasn't been admitted.

I'm a civil rights attorney. I'm a victim rights attorney.

If the public can't see justice being done, or afford the costs of justice, then the entire system becomes little more than a cozy club solely for the benefit of judges, lawyers and their lackeys, a sort of care in the community for the upper middle classes.

So many people who deal with sexual harassment don't have the means to file lawsuits or to get legal representation or legal advice.

Guantanamo Bay can be and has been visited repeatedly by the International Red Cross and other human-rights groups for observation in an open, regular, and transparent manner. Detainees receive the same medical care as the guard force and are able to participate in their daily prayer sessions.

Let the Negro have the shield of impartial laws. Let him be heard in court

When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.

If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the protected members of the middle class. One goes to the unprotected – those, precisely, who need the law's protection most! – and listens to their testimony.

Every person within this jurisdiction, whether inhabitant or foreigner, shall enjoy the same justice and law that is general for the plantation, which we constitute and execute one toward another without partiality or delay.

When it comes to those who are accused and their right to defend themselves, it is perfectly reasonable to expect relevant evidence to be made public, and I am in favour of open justice.

The genesis of Public Interest Litigation in listening to the voice of the voiceless and giving access to the poor, the marginalised, and the weak is a unique experiment to be lauded.

We all require equal access to the justice system.

For the common man the justice meted out in the lower courts is much more important than that meted out in the Supreme Court.

I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.

Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.