“SERVANT OF JUSTICE”
Interpretation of the Law "Law i.s the instrument and should be the servant of justice,” said Mr. Justice Ostler when addressing a social gathering of the Wellington Justices of the Peace. Association last night. . “All of u,s engaged in dispensing justice must remember that our duty is to dispense justice according to the law, for that is the form of the oath which both judges and justices must take before assuming office. “There is always the tendency for law to lag a little behind justice, and I personally regard it as the most important duty of everyone engaged, as you and I are,.in the administration of justice so to interpret the law wherever possible that it shall continue to be that for which it was designed—that is to say, the handmaiden of justice.”
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 149, 19 March 1936, Page 8
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