It is common sense that in our immigration courts, where children fleeing devastating violence abroad often find themselves, kids need lawyers to advocate on their behalf. After all, lawyers go to school for years to understand the nuances of our legal system.
Interpretation
Children facing violence abroad require legal representation in immigration courts.
This quote highlights the importance of having qualified legal advocates for children who are seeking refuge from violence in immigration courts. It underscores the idea that navigating the complexities of the legal system is challenging, particularly for vulnerable populations like children, and that the expertise of lawyers is crucial in ensuring that their rights and needs are adequately represented.
In practice
During a seminar on children’s rights, this quote could emphasize the need for legal support.
Maher Arar's case stands as a sad example of how we have been too willing to sacrifice our core principles to overarching government power in the name of security, when doing so only undermines the principles we stand for and makes us less safe.
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
When I signed on to letting the death penalty back in, I thought the procedural protections against executing an innocent person were stronger than they turned out to be.
A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
Of one thing, however, I am certain. Just as an execution without adequate safeguards is unacceptable, so too is an execution when the condemned prisoner can prove that he is innocent. The execution of a person who can show that he is innocent comes perilously close to simple murder.
The glory of justice and the majesty of law are created not just by the Constitution - nor by the courts - nor by the officers of the law - nor by the lawyers - but by the men and women who constitute our society - who are the protectors of the law as they are themselves protected by the law.
It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to discover a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.
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