Download ~REPACK~ Scale Of Justice
Marjorie Piganelli
SDG16.3 aspires to ensure equal access to justice for all by 2030. This is a global challenge. ODI research has shown that, even with maximised tax take, the poorest countries cannot afford to provide even basic justice services. And yet providing these services and closing this gap in lower-income countries is affordable, with support from the international community. As Pathfinders for Justice have said: what is needed is a transformation in ambition.
Created in 2005, the "Crystal Scales of Justice" Prize is a competition aimed at discovering and highlighting innovative and efficient practices concerning the functioning of justice, judicial procedures or the organisation of courts.
These practices are conducted in European jurisdictions (for example, initiatives devised by a court president, a registry, a Bar). They are drawn to the attention of policy-makers and the judicial community so as to improve the functioning of the public justice system.The aim of the prize is to identify and promote innovative practices regarding the conduct of proceedings, court organisation and the functioning of court systems in general. To be eligible for consideration, the practices nominated must have been implemented recently and they should be easily usable by other States or jurisdictions. Their efficiency must be measurable.
All the parties involved in the justice system in Cyprus have an important reason to feel proud. The Cyprus School of Magistrates and the Humanitarian Organisation "Hope for Children" CRC Policy Center Cyprus won the "Crystal Scales of Justice" prize in the framework of the CEPEJ Council of Europe competition.
Under certain circumstances, the unbalanced scales are said to represent weighing the merits of one side against the other, with the understanding a fair judgment will give credence to one set of facts over another. Other times, unbalanced scales are used as a political commentary to indicate an opinion that a particular ruling or law unfairly favors one side over another, or to suggest one argument is significantly stronger than another.
My column this month agrees with the latter interpretation in regard to ELM 650 hearing processing. ELM 650 is the only source of justice for approximately 7,500 EAS employees who do not have MSPB rights due to not fulfilling the supervisory requirements or, possibly, the one year in a like or similar position.
Traditionally, the scales are shown in balance, usually when they are held by Lady Justice (or Justitia, from the Roman goddess). This symbolizes giving fair and objective consideration to all evidence, without showing bias one way or the other.
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The Lady Justice statue is usually in the form of a woman who is standing or sitting. She is typically dressed in a toga-like robe, maybe barefoot, and her hair is either flowing over her shoulders or braided in a bun or around her head. She holds a balance, or two-tray scale in one hand and a sword in the other; usually, the scales are in the left hand and the sword in the right, but this is not always so. Sometimes, she also wears a blindfold over her eyes.
Some of the first images similar to the Lady of Justice date back to the Egyptian goddess Maat, who signified truth and order in that ancient society. Later, the ancient Greeks worshipped the goddess Themis, the personification of divine law and custom, and her daughter, Dike, whose name means "justice." Dike was always depicted carrying a pair of balance scales, and it was believed that she ruled over human law.
Balance Scales: These represent impartiality and the obligation of the law (through its representatives) to weigh the evidence presented to the court. Each side of a legal case needs to be looked at, and comparisons made as justice is done.
Sword: This item symbolizes enforcement and respect and means that justice stands by its decision and ruling and is able to take action. The fact that the sword is unsheathed and very visible is a sign that justice is transparent and is not an implement of fear. A double-edged blade signifies that justice can rule against either of the parties once the evidence has been perused, and it is bound to enforce the ruling as well as protect or defend the innocent party.
A balance scale, as historically used to measure weight. A symbol of justice, as held by Lady Justice, and of the zodiac sign of Libra, the Scales. Depicted as two silver or gold pans suspended from a beam and supported on a base.
The analysis identifies prolific countries, smuggling routes, shipping methods and the street value of pangolin scales, pointing out new trends, aiming to bridge some of the intelligence gaps in the understanding of the architecture of pangolin trafficking. The study also shows a significant and rapid increase in the volume of scales being trafficked, facilitated by transnational criminal networks that are driving the species to extinction.
Between 2016-2019, an estimated 206.4 tonnes of pangolin scales were confiscated from 52 seizures. The Wildlife Justice Commission believes this is only a fraction of the total being trafficked, as it is likely that a significant proportion of smuggling passes undetected.
The coordination and infrastructure required to facilitate the harvesting, processing, storage and transportation of the reported volume of pangolin scales must be huge. In order to effectively dismantle the criminal networks behind it and bring the high-level traffickers to justice, the trafficking of pangolin scales must be tackled from a truly intelligence-led approach, identifying the chronic crime enablers combined with the use of advanced investigative techniques applied to other organised crimes, such as controlled deliveries.
Scale is another term that is used in everyday language that has specific meanings in different fields, including the social sciences. For example, there is the technical definition in mapmaking that refers to the relationship between a distance measured in inches or centimeters on a map and the actual distance that it represents (say in miles or kilometers) in the real world. Or, in the corporate world, you might ask if an idea is scalable--can you deliver more units of a service or make more widgets as the business grows to serve more and more clients across the country and the world. Or, in the government world, a policymaker might see something works on a neighborhood level and ask would it also work at larger scales, such as city-wide, or when you add in suburbs across a metropolitan area, or when you try the same idea at the state, federal and global levels? This sense is close to that used by social scientists, who might also think about individual and family scales, as well as the larger ones mentioned above.
Many social scientists, though, have begun to think about other issues with scale, such as--what makes scale? A good introduction is found in the Oxford Dictionary of Human Geography article "Scale": This article introduces some of the questions: did not people invent political juristictions, nations, and so on? So what parts of scale are socially constructed, and what influences their creation and continuance over time ("reproduction")? Or, in what scales is an activity taking place, like an point of sale transaction at a store? You're spending money in a neighborhood. Your transaction may be logged in a multinational corporation or an international bank. If you're travellling abroad, you're engaging exchange rates. A state may regulate banks within its jurisdiction. A town may have restrictions on how large a sign the store can display, or how many parking spaces, if any, it has to have. A simple transaction be more complex than it first seems.
Scale is a concept that relates to environmental justice, too. A neighborhood may be poor and have lots of toxins, but if data are reported at a county level, that instance of environmental injustice may disappear. County-level land zoning may dictate where industrial activities take place, and the size of residential lots nearby, linking certain socioeconomic neighborhoods with environmental ills. Yet, that neighborhood may also be downwind of a refinery, which happens to be located in another state, which changes the scale issues again. The toxins themselves may be regulated at the national level, but enforced by delegated state agencies. Before you know it, scale can grow to be a very complicated thing, and it is worthy of study.
[The use of the term "geographic scale" helps avoid returning searches that have to do with another use of the word "scale," as in a rating scale--a tool to measure the severity or intensity of a phenomenon, like shyness, dyslexia, or stress.]
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