What's the difference between justice and justification?

Justice


Definition:

  • (a.) The quality of being just; conformity to the principles of righteousness and rectitude in all things; strict performance of moral obligations; practical conformity to human or divine law; integrity in the dealings of men with each other; rectitude; equity; uprightness.
  • (a.) Conformity to truth and reality in expressing opinions and in conduct; fair representation of facts respecting merit or demerit; honesty; fidelity; impartiality; as, the justice of a description or of a judgment; historical justice.
  • (a.) The rendering to every one his due or right; just treatment; requital of desert; merited reward or punishment; that which is due to one's conduct or motives.
  • (a.) Agreeableness to right; equity; justness; as, the justice of a claim.
  • (a.) A person duly commissioned to hold courts, or to try and decide controversies and administer justice.
  • (v. t.) To administer justice to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The measure destroyed the Justice Department’s plans to prosecute whatever Guantánamo detainees it could in federal courts.
  • (2) Why bother to put the investigators, prosecutors, judge, jury and me through this if one person can set justice aside, with the swipe of a pen.
  • (3) The judge, Mr Justice John Royce, told George she was "cold" and "calculating", as further disturbing details of her relationship with the co-accused, Colin Blanchard and Angela Allen, emerged.
  • (4) The denial of justice to victims of British torture, some of which Britain admits, is set to continue.
  • (5) Existing mental health and criminal justice systems provide social control for some of these dangerous individuals, but may be inadequate to deal with those mentally disordered offenders who were not found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGI).
  • (6) And I want to do this in partnership with you.” In the Commons, there are signs the home secretary may manage to reduce a rebellion by backbench Tory MPs this afternoon on plans to opt back into a series of EU justice and home affairs measures, notably the European arrest warrant .
  • (7) If it is proven he did, he must be brought to justice, said the politician.
  • (8) "At the moment there are about 1,600 criminal justice firms, and they all have a contract with the lord chancellor.
  • (9) So is the mock courtroom promising “justice and fairness”.
  • (10) We need to be confident that the criminal justice system takes child abuse seriously.
  • (11) What if the court of justice refuses to answer the question?
  • (12) The court hearing – in a case of the kind likely to be heard in secret if the government's justice and security bill is passed – was requested by the law firm Leigh Day and the legal charity Reprieve, acting for Serdar Mohammed, tortured by the Afghan security services after being transferred to their custody by UK forces.
  • (13) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
  • (14) Hebrew for voice of justice, Kol Tzedek was described in publicity at the time as "an outreach program aimed at helping sex-crime victims in Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish Communities report abuse".
  • (15) The exercise comes at a sensitive time for Poland’s military, following the sacking or forced retirement of a quarter of the country’s generals since the nationalist Law and Justice government came to power in October last year.
  • (16) "I don't think I will be able to rest until they are all brought to justice," he said.
  • (17) But under Comey’s FBI, the agency has continued to disregard the justice department’s legal opinion, and to this day, demands tech companies hand it all sorts of data under due-process free National Security Letters.
  • (18) The bottom line is that access to abortion is a matter of social justice.
  • (19) The Morgan family said the terms of reference for the inquiry panel included: • Police involvement in the murder • The role played by police corruption in protecting those responsible for the murder from being brought to justice and the failure to confront that corruption • The incidence of connections between private investigators, police officers and journalists at the News of the World and other parts of the media and corruption involved in the linkages between them.
  • (20) The law and justice minister, Anisul Huq, said the 73-year-old leader was hanged after he refused to seek mercy from the country’s president.

Justification


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of justifying or the state of being justified; a showing or proving to be just or conformable to law, justice, right, or duty; defense; vindication; support; as, arguments in justification of the prisoner's conduct; his disobedience admits justification.
  • (n.) The showing in court of a sufficient lawful reason why a party charged or accused did that for which he is called to answer.
  • (n.) The act of justifying, or the state of being justified, in respect to God's requirements.
  • (n.) Adjustment of type by spacing it so as to make it exactly fill a line, or of a cut so as to hold it in the right place; also, the leads, quads, etc., used for making such adjustment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "We do not yet live in a society where the police or any other officers of the law are entitled to detain people without reasonable justification and demand their papers," Gardiner wrote.
  • (2) Considerations of different ways of obtaining informed consent, determining ways of minimizing harm, and justifications for violating the therapeutic obligation are discussed but found unsatisfactory in many respects.
  • (3) Although Menzies, et al., report that survival rates are higher than previously expected and that in most cases the children's and parents' lives appear not to be excessively burdensome, the Working Group contends that there "continues to be ethical justification for selective treatment" of such newborns.
  • (4) Financial reasons were given as the main justification for leaving government service.
  • (5) What has confused debate about the legal basis for targeted killings is that the UK’s permanent representative at the UN has given an alternative justification, explaining that the attack was justified by the right of collective self-defence of Iraq – a conflict the UK is supporting at the request of the Baghdad government.
  • (6) This seems to be little more than the existing defence of justification under a new name.
  • (7) There is little justification for strikes in general, still less for doctors' strikes, he claims.
  • (8) Scandinavian forensic psychiatrists, lawyers and criminologists have analyzed and discussed the present situation and have found that there is still a need and justification for forensic psychiatry.
  • (9) An important source of failure in markets and justification for government intervention in the health sector of LDCs is imperfect information.
  • (10) Phylogenetic and ontogenetic justifications for this organization are adduced.
  • (11) This paper challenges the present policy on two grounds: consent from adults who donate kidneys is generally not informed, and therefore it is inconsistent to use the consent requirement as a justification for excluding children; and renal donation by adults can be seen as a procedure done for the benefit of the donor (as well as the recipient), and the appropriate rules for using children as donors should therefore be those pertaining to beneficial intrusions on nonconsenting subjects.
  • (12) Up to now, to interpret antibiotic susceptibility tests, the common practice has been to use: first, breakpoints without any quantitative justification, secondly, concordance curves between the different measurement techniques; these are not well adapted to the heterogeneous character of bacterial populations.
  • (13) Things only got worse in 1998 when Russia defaulted on its loans: the people of this area once again lost what little they had saved, and the oligarchs just got richer, in yet more deals that Russians perceived, with some justification, to have been brokered by the west.
  • (14) In these countries, however, a question has risen as to priority and justification for developing neonatal intensive care.
  • (15) In an increasingly digital society, the justification for opacity in trade negotiations has met its demise, and it's time that we see modern legal instruments negotiated in a transparent and inclusive manner in order to get the best outcome for our country.
  • (16) But there is absolutely no justification for this type of senseless violence."
  • (17) Despite uncertainties and differences in interpretation of various cancer studies, there is ample justification for public health measures now in place or proposed, such as restriction or elimination of smoking in the workplace and in public places.
  • (18) The presence of a field change, affecting epidermal melanocytes in the skin surrounding melanomas, has been cited as a justification for performing radical excision of these lesions.
  • (19) The justification for its use is not always as clear as one might hope.
  • (20) 3.06pm BST More scientific reaction Ken Collins, a senior research fellow at the University of Southampton, said there was no justification for using lethal methods for researching whales.