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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. She often appears as a pair with Prudentia.
The woman is holding a pair of scales, as a symbol of justice, but her eyes are closed—a reference to the traditional depiction of Lady Justice wearing a blindfold, but also a suggestion that justice is degenerating into a self-righteous unwillingness to see an obvious injustice.
"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".
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 ...
English: Vector graphic image of scales of justice and a wreath اردو: ویکٹر تصویر انصاف کے ترازو اور ایک پھولوں کی چادر کی Español: Imagen gráfica vectorial de escalas de justicia y una corona
Spirit of Justice is a 1933 cast aluminum statue depicting Lady Justice that stands on display along with its male counterpart Majesty of Justice in the Great Hall of the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C., the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Lady Justice is a 12-foot (3.7 m)-tall, 300-pound (140 kg) Lady Justice statue in Salem, Oregon, United States. Formerly located on the roof of the Marion County Courthouse , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] the sculpture is now installed in Willamette University 's Truman Wesley Collins Legal Center .
An Old Bailey trial, c. 1808 Plaque commemorating Bushel's Case of 1670 Lady Justice statue on the top of the court building A small Sessions House at the time (in black at centre near red line), the court is shown in Christopher and John Greenwood's 8 inch-to-mile map published in 1827 from an 1830 republication.