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Justice versus conscience

Liam Allan, a 22-year-old criminology student – falsely accused – is a metaphor for a justice system that nearly failed

  • Preface
    • Preface
      • Go the extra mile
      • The Quest for Justice
      • What is justice?
      • Justice hope for a better day
      • The Litmus test for Justice
      • Perceptive
      • The downside of justice
      • “You cared about me” …
      • Before you judge someone
    • Introduction
    • Wrongly imprisoned
    • The dark side of justice
    • A perversion of justice
    • Everybody is a genius…
    • Horrible versus Normal
    • Can we all just get along?
    • Unjust Justice Unfair Justice
    • The scales vs ‘True Justice’
    • The tip of the iceberg
    • The reality of human life
  • Liam Allan
    • The Times
    • Videos
    • Why would you lie?
    • The justice trap
    • Mind-boggling examples
      • The Central Park Five
      • Textbook example false confession
      • I don’t care what you did
      • We do live in an unfair world
      • I never learned what justice was…
      • Smell a rat
      • Small person – corrupt world
      • Serious war crimes
      • An unbroken bound
      • Never wrongful conviction
      • The lawyers were not skilled
      • Compelling aid
      • Disbelief
      • A change of heart
      • The quest for civil rights
      • Unearthing the truth
      • It happened
      • Magdeburg hemispheres
        • Jeffrey Epstein
        • Harvey Weinstein
        • Are investigations foiled?
        • Truth and misinformation
    • Beyond a shadow of a doubt
    • A senseless ordeal
    • BBC news
  • Science Fraud
    • Science Fraud
    • The Mind of a Con Man
    • Radio TV and a Book
    • Derailment
    • The Achilles heel
      • The Justice Paradox
      • Innocent Project
      • Unethical people
      • Doing good – not doing harm
      • Fair answers to queries
      • Pilate washes his hands
        • Shipbreaking Yards
        • Recycling
      • Candid camera
      • A story
      • Living a lie
      • Ripple effect
    • Playing to the gallery
    • Integrity
    • The press
  • Baffling
    • Baffling
    • A 14 year old boy
    • The worst case
      • When hell freezes over
      • Carrying coals to Newcastle
      • Rigged in many ways
      • Sell your soul to the devil
      • Stab someone in the back
      • Staged
      • Get out of hand
        • Thought-terminating cliché
        • A Tug-of-war
        • Dialogue of the deaf
        • Forced silence
        • Exploitation
        • A toy
        • Paper perfect
        • Entertainment
        • Whose bread one eats
        • Pro forma
      • A wolf in sheep’s clothing
      • A loophole
      • The opposite world
      • Environmental factors
      • Chaos
      • Someone’s attitude sours
      • No shame whatsoever
    • Wrongfully convicted
    • Convicting the wrong person
    • Worthless biased charges
    • Illusion of Justice
    • Miscarriage of justice
    • An unlikely Journey
    • Beyond comprehension
    • A really thin case
    • Rough Justice
    • Falsely accused
    • Misconduct
    • One foot in the grave
    • Tunnel vision
    • Huge mistakes
    • Innocence
    • Manifest injustice
    • Executed by mistake
    • DNA Evidence
    • Above Suspicion
    • Mistakes are made
    • The Unthinkable
    • Police mistakes
    • The circumstances
    • Misguided Justice
    • Convicted and Exonerated
    • False confessions
    • Wrongly Convicted Documentaries
  • Fairness
    • The definition of fairness
    • A moral / ethical dilemma
      • A humbling experience
      • Life is not a joke
        • Rohingya
        • North Korea
        • Hong Kong
        • Nepal
        • India
        • Sri Lanka
        • The Philippines
        • Guatemala
        • Madagascar
        • Mongolia
        • China
        • Afghanistan
        • Pakistan
        • Bangladesh
        • Myanmar (Burma)
        • Mauritania
        • One of the darkest secrets
        • The desperate journey
        • Asylum
        • Immigration
        • Sweatshops & Fast Fashion
        • Live without dignity
        • Beyond Human Boundaries
        • Honour killings
        • Child abduction
        • For some dubious reason
        • Aid
      • Basic honesty
      • Black-and-white
      • A Red Flag
      • Bury your head in the sand
      • Out of touch
      • Tough-minded
      • Multi-layered
      • Beat around the bush
      • The elephant in the room
      • Liars and truth-tellers
      • The Crow and the Fox
      • A devil in a holy water basin
      • The devil’s advocate
      • Money-grubber
      • Comfort zone
      • Cast pearls before swine
    • What is Fair? What is Just?
    • Act on shared values
    • Morally conscious
    • Moral behaviour
    • The Judgment of Solomon
    • Boys will be boys
    • Not Guilty
    • So shocking…
    • Rotherham scandal
    • The notary and the bailiff
    • The Richest Man in Babylon
    • Fake degrees
    • Fake Homeless
    • Examining people practices
    • Enigma
    • Herald of Free Enterprise
  • Metaphor
    • Metaphor
    • The making of
    • Self-awareness
    • There have been no answers
    • A robust paradigm
    • The guardians of information
    • A needle in a haystack
      • Post truth
      • Brushing under the carpet
      • A scapegoat
      • Take with a grain of salt
      • Wrong destination
        • A villainous crook
        • Blow the whistle
        • Firework disaster Enschede
        • Bijlmer air crash disaster
        • The Crazy Brabant Killers
        • The whistle-blower
        • Stop problems of misunderstanding
      • A poisoned chalice
      • The Olive Grove
      • Pit against
      • The Ivory Tower
      • A very absurd issue
      • Bob Woodward
    • Dictionary
    • A heinous miscalculation
    • People without Conscience
    • Inequality
    • The Nobel Peace Prize
    • A Destructieve Society
    • Turn a blind eye
    • Pendulum swing too far?
    • Evil does exist in this world
    • Nails at low tide
    • The blunt ax
    • The Blue Wall of Silence
    • Pull the wool over eyes
    • A long way to go
    • Rowing the oars you have
  • Life
    • It is so likeable
      • This is Cool
      • Affected life
        • Child poverty
        • Child neglect
        • Abduction of children
        • Initiation rite goes wrong
        • Street Children
        • Child Labour
        • Child brides
        • Forced and child marriages
        • Bridal slaves
        • Sold into marriage
        • Child prostitution
        • Child Slavery
        • Children for sale
        • Stolen Children
        • Missing Children
        • Human Trafficking
        • Bride kidnapping
        • Hidden Shame
        • Forced into prostitution
        • Grooming
        • Child Sex Abuse
        • Lost Childhood Break Cycle
        • Sexual Assault
        • Secret out of shame or guilt
        • Young Children “Left Behind”
        • On the brink of starvation
        • Poverty
        • I am somebody
        • Break boundaries
        • The Question of Surrogacy
        • Scandal Brought Down DSK
      • Emotions
      • Lifeline
      • Isaac Waddington and his little brother
      • Boyband Collabro
      • Other songs Bars and Melody
      • To make you feel my love
      • Biography
      • Happiness George Sampson
    • Reflections on Life
    • Make a fool of somebody
    • Words of wisdom
    • Keeping up appearances
    • Ethics
    • The bag of tricks
    • Confucius and Einstein
    • The biggest wake-up call
    • Very humble, very happy
    • Empathy
    • Above Working Class
    • Dignity
    • Double standard
    • Popaganda – Spin Doctors
    • Regret
    • The authenticity of Nepal
    • Honey hunting in Nepal
    • The Industrial Revolution
    • Where you came from
    • Why?
  • Hope
    • Hope and courage
    • Super hero
    • All things-wonder
    • The long way home
    • The Good Samaritan
    • Why I dropped out?
    • A defining moment
    • Living in a bubble
    • A new priority, a new horizon
    • Why it is we do what we do?
      • Beforehand
      • Orientation of the spirit
      • A sense of purpose
      • The Audacity of Hope
      • Education and inspiration
      • An obligation to excel
      • My brother’s keeper
      • To my brother
      • Wherever we are…
      • A Promised Land
      • Truth-telling
    • Michelle and Barack Obama
    • In spite of everything…
    • Becoming Michelle Obama
    • True learning
    • Great moments
    • Personal stories
    • Bryan Stevenson
  • Break the cycle
    • Break the cycle
    • Justice
      • The Pursuit of Justice
        • A fair procedure
        • Disruptive and insane
        • The wrong system
        • The Justice Gap
        • The Moral Compass
        • Trust in justice
        • Misunderstanding
        • The wider picture
        • Between hammer and anvil
        • The Public Perception
        • How well you treated people
        • The Proof of the Pudding
        • Dominant
        • Lectures and teachings
        • Yuval Noah Harari
        • Gandhi
        • Dr. Martin Luther King jr.
      • The judge
      • The Lawyer
      • Who cares?
      • How Justice Really Works
      • Unfit and Sheer Incompetent
      • The psychiatrist
      • Prof. dr. Dirk De Wachter
      • Criminal advocates
      • Belgian criminal lawyer
      • The Science of Justice
      • A justice system
      • Bill Gates
      • Injustice
      • Judge wiser
      • Human Rights
      • International Justice
      • Creating a falsehood
      • The Nurenberg Trials
      • Saddam Hussein
      • Osama bin Laden
    • A different type of ball game
    • Immanent – ambivalent
    • Abject unscrupulous
    • Infernal for eternity
    • He was just a clown
    • Toby the Devil
    • A sounding board
    • Rosa Parks 1955
    • Harriet Tubman
    • A double-edged sword
    • Living on the edge
    • A conflict of interest
    • Think outside the box
    • Open to discussion
    • A market society
  • Grounding
    • The Little Prince
    • A Journey through life
    • Tears of happiness
    • Children of a Lesser God!
    • Top grade
    • The Bible
    • Islam
    • Letter to the Pope
    • Nick Vujicic
    • What’s the right thing to do?
      • It is a hard question
      • Righteousness
        • The End of Normal
        • It can happen to anyone
        • The hidden picture
        • Beyond disclosure
        • It is absolutely devastating
        • The downward spiral
        • Slavery
        • Slave trade
        • Modern Day Slavery
        • Abject poverty
        • Organ Trafficking
        • Race
        • Justice delayed is justice denied
        • King Albert II
        • How does that happen?
      • Principles of justice
      • Laws of Nature
      • Human understanding
      • What Money Can’t Buy
      • The Public Philosopher
      • Michael Sandel – Harvard
      • Questions that matter
      • What is a fair society
      • Are degrees our own doing?
      • Harvard University
  • Contact & Content
    • Search
    • Table of contents
    • Full Table of Contents
    • Candid Camera Table of contents
    • Contact
    • Blog – Justice about us
    • Downloads
    • Epilogue
    • Connecting the dots
    • Truth be told
      • Wheels within wheels
      • The Shocking Truth
      • An Inconvenient Truth
      • A bridge too far
      • Slip through the cracks
      • That’s the last straw
      • The story behind the story
      • As clear as mud
      • To clarify the website
      • Philosophy
        • Virtue Ethics
        • Plato
        • Aristotle
        • Socrates
        • Immanuel Kant
        • Test
    • The Garden of Eden
    • Justice from the heart
    • Master of the Universe
    • Back cover of the website
    • In a nutshell

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