Justice Delayed is Justice Denied

What is justice? Is it definable? Let’s try. Is it impartiality? Or is it being fair? The concept of justice is actually a subjective one and also entails at the same time being objective in judgment. Justice according to some is getting a fair treatment, while for others it is getting justice being delivered in courts. But a question that arises here is: Do all the judgments delivered in courts mean justice? If you have any doubts read John Grisham’s ‘The Innocent Man’. It can be called an eye-opener, although we are already in the know of many loopholes of law.
Meursault was awarded death sentence not because he murdered an Arab but because he didn’t cry at his mother’s funeral. It was he was ‘the outsider’ at his own hearings in the court.
Shakespeare did see to it that justice was done to Lear in his play ‘King Lear’ but the time he was united with his beloved daughter, Cordelia; she died in his arms – the most pathetic scene of the tragedy.
Was it justice what Thomas Hardy described at the end of his brilliant novel ‘Tess of D’urbervilles’ :
“The President of Immortals, in Aeschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess.”

We also have Lear mouthing the following words:
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods
They kill for their sport.

In Shakespere’s ‘Julius Caesar’ the question of justice is left open to readers – whether the killing of Caesar by the senators, aristocrats and even Caesar's friend Brutus is justified – Caesar’s ‘You too Brutus’ says it all. He couldn’t bring himself to believe that his friend was there too among who killed him. No justice for Caesar for sure!