Legal Delay Quotes

Delay in justice is injustice.

Justice too long delayed is justice denied.

The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it

We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."

Believe me, when you're sitting on death row, you want the appeal process to take time; as long as you're going through it, you're going to be alive.

RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.

We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights.

Sometimes the wheels of justice grind slowly.

A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice.

But for a man, it's different. Like, separation can take years - it can take years to make divorce final. What am I supposed to do during those years? I think that's, you know it's not the *craziest* thing, but it's where a lot of rumors come from. It's frustrating.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Justice deferred is justice denied.

Slow justice is not justice.

A growing number of courts outside the United States--- courts that accept or assume the lawfulness of the death penalty--- have held that lengthy delay in administering a lawful death penalty renders the ultimate execution inhuman, degrading, or unusually cruel.”

If any one should file a complaint against another before a judge, and the latter should refuse to hear him, or deny him the use of his seal, or, under different pretexts, should delay the trial of his cause, not permitting it to be heard, through favor to a client or a friend, and the plaintiff can prove this by witnesses, the judge shall give to him to whom he has refused a hearing, as compensation for his trouble, a sum equal to that which the plaintiff would have received from his adversary by due course of law

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Exxon fought claims resulting from the Exxon Valdez spill in court for 20 years. Alabama could have suffered the same fate. What would be the benefit to the state or its coastal counties in delaying indefinitely the receipt of monies that we need sooner rather than later?

... endless lawyering can prevent efficient justice

The Supreme Court told me that I should have filed a complaint within six months of the company's first decision to pay me less even though I didn't know about it for nearly two decades.