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Statue of Lady Justice blindfolded and holding a balance and a sword, outside the Court of Final Appeal, Hong Kong. Lady Justice (Latin: Iustitia) is an allegorical personification of the moral force in judicial systems. [1] [2] Her attributes are scales, a sword and sometimes a blindfold.
Scales of Justice is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh.It is the eighteenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn, and was first published in 1955. [1]With a classic 'Golden Age' crime novel's setting, in the idyllic, self-contained, rural English community of Swevenings, the suspects are all members of a tight-knit social group revolving around the local baronet and his family, the Lacklanders.
Scales of justice (symbol), scales held by Lady Justice symbolizing the measure of a case's support and opposition; Scales of Justice, a 1983 Australian television drama "Scales of Justice", a song by Avantasia from the 2010 album The Wicked Symphony; Scales of Justice, a novel by New Zealand writer Ngaio Marsh featuring her character Inspector ...
Scales of Justice is composed of three self-contained, character-linked dramas. Focusing on the world of Australian law enforcement, vice, drugs, politics and widespread corruption, from street level to the corridors of power, the programme was acclaimed for its a near-documentary level of realism.
An inscription Fiat iustitia pereat mundus on the sculpture The Scales of Justice in Kolín.The sculpture was made by Ivan Erben in 2001. Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus is a Latin phrase, meaning "Let justice be done, and the world perish".
"Lady Justice" holding a 2-pan balance beam scale, and a sword: Statue of Justice, Central Criminal Court, London, UK. The scales (specifically, a two-pan, beam balance) are one of the traditional symbols of justice, as wielded by statues of Lady Justice. This corresponds to the use in a metaphor of matters being "held in the balance".
The Scales of Justice was a series of 13 British cinema featurettes produced from 1962 to 1967 for Anglo-Amalgamated at Merton Park Studios in London. [1] [2] The first nine episodes were made in black and white, and the last four were made in colour. The final episode, Payment in Kind, was Merton Park's last production.
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