Justice as an extremely crucial factor of this world, it is the standard to define whether a thing or an action is right or not. A legal system is necessary to be existed in this world. However, is it absolutely fair when it comes to justice? What happens if a case delays for too long? Ever since hundreds years ago, people already have words on justice delayed is injustice. For example, in the Pirkei Avot 5:8, a section of the Mishnah (1st century BCE – 2nd century CE): "Our Rabbis taught: ...The sword comes into the world, because of justice delayed and justice denied...". And the Magna Carta of 1215, clause 40 of which reads, "To no one will we sell, to no one will we refuse or delay, right or justice." A closer historical example is that Martin Luther King Jr once used the phrase “justice too long delayed is justice denied” in his letter from Birmingham jail. All of the above indicates that slow justice really puts a question mark on fair justice. There are more recent cases related to slow justice and it proves that justice delayed is equal to no justice. The following paragraphs will express all cases and prove that slow justice is injustice.
The first case is related to a fact in Brazil. According to Parallels, a department of five judges are currently handling more than 1.6 million cases in Brazil. That means if each person works on ten cases every day, they will still need more than 300000 years to finish judging all the cases. No one can live that long which means most of the cases are going to be a rock under the sea also known as not going to be judged or needed to have a long process time. Brazil has a lot of law schools, more than the rest of the world combined. However, most of the people came out of law school decides to go work for private firm so they can get more salary. This leads to the shortage of public lawyers and judges and the work overload