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Law and Justice Critically analyse the relationship between law and justice (20) In order to achieve justice, countries institute a legal system of some sort. However, sometimes those systems are flawed, and therefore, an injustice will occur, such as when innocent people are convicted of crimes they did not commit. The most common example used being the numbers cases. Justice is an entirely subjective concept, largely depending on political affiliation, and previous experience of the legal system. Similarly to law, there is a vast amount of documentation providing different definitions and different theories of justice. The Greek philosopher Aristotle was one of the earliest thinkers in relation to justice, and his theories are still influential today. Aristotelian justice is based upon the premise that a just law will allow citizens to fulfil their potential in society, and therefore developed the theory of distributive justice. As opposed to corrective justice, distributive justice is concerned with...

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