There needs to be a careful inclusive approach to how we want law and justice to be represented in a visual art form ...

India’s Supreme Court recently unveiled a new statue of Lad’ Justice, an iconic symbol of the judiciary, marking a ...

The new statue does not have a blindfold, is clad in a sari, and carries the Constitution of India in her hand instead of a sword. The one thing that has not changed is the scales of justice held ...

The statue of Lady Justice in the judges' library of the Supreme Court of India has undergone a transformation. The statue, which has long been a symbol of justice, now holds a copy of the Indian ...

lawyers and citizens share their views The old statue of a blindfolded Lady Justice holding a set of scales in one hand and a sword in the other for centuries is now a thing of the past.

Yet it is not the past but the present and future that the new statue represents. It rejects the colonial-era symbolism of a blindfolded Justice in Western clothes with weighing scales in one hand and ...

Lady Justice statue with its blindfold removed and a copy ... the rationale behind these changes,” the resolution reads. The scales represented balance and fairness, while the sword was meant ...

The statue holds a scale in one hand and the Constitution ... questioning substantial change in the indicators that represent justice, especially when they have long traditions and the Bar seeks ...