Lady Justice

Lady Justice (Latin: Iustitia) is an allegorical personification of the moral force in judicial systems.

[3] Though formally called a goddess with her own temple and cult shrine in Rome, it appears that she was from the onset viewed more as an artistic symbolic personification rather than as an actual deity with religious significance.

[citation needed] The personification of justice balancing the scales dates back to the goddess Maat,[5] and later Isis, of ancient Egypt.

Lady Justice is often depicted with a set of scales, typically suspended from one hand, upon which she balances the relative substance and value (i.e. the 'weight') of the available evidence and arguments on both sides of any bilateral dispute.

[11] Another variation is to depict a blindfolded Lady Justice as a human scale, weighing competing claims in each hand.

Announcing the change, the Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud declared that "the law is not blind, it sees everyone equally".