Skip to content

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
        • Trust in justice
        • Between hammer and anvil
        • Nails at low tide
        • The Justice Gap
        • The Proof of the Pudding
        • Magdeburg hemispheres
        • A robust paradigm
        • Dictionary
    • The legal system at stake
    • Introduction
    • Wrongly imprisoned
  • Liam Allan
    • Liam Allan in the Times
    • Sheer incompetence
    • A contradiction in terms
    • A distorted view
    • Mind-boggling examples
      • The Central Park Five
      • I don’t care what you did
      • We do live in an unfair world
      • I never learned what justice was…
      • Small person – corrupt world
      • Serious war crimes
      • Never wrongful conviction
      • The lawyers were not skilled
      • Compelling aid
      • Disbelief
        • Jeffrey Epstein
        • Prince Andrew
        • Prince Andrew’s Settlement
        • A sounding board
        • Ghislaine Maxwell
        • Harvey Weinstein
        • Jimmy Saville
        • DSK Dominiq Strauss-Kahn
        • The President and the Intern
        • Nixon – Watergate Scandal
        • Police report Daniel Morgan
        • Are investigations foiled?
      • A change of heart
      • The quest for civil rights
      • Residential Schools
      • Indian Boarding Schools
      • It happened
      • An unbroken bound
  • 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
        • Qatar World Cup 2022
        • FIFA and Sepp Blatter
        • A perversion of justice
        • Horrible versus Normal
        • Can we all just get along?
        • Unjust Justice Unfair Justice
        • The scales vs ‘True Justice’
        • The reality of human life
      • Candid camera
      • Lay one’s cards on the table
      • Make-or-break
      • Cover-up
      • Egoism
      • Ripple effect
      • Rub salt into the wound
    • Playing to the gallery
    • Integrity
    • Dutch 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
    • The Post Office Scandal
    • 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
        • Canada
        • Europe
        • One of the darkest secrets
        • The desperate journey
        • Asylum
        • Immigration
        • Sweatshops & Fast Fashion
        • Rana Plaza Collapse
        • Live without dignity
        • Beyond Human Boundaries
        • Honour killings
        • Child abduction
        • For some dubious reason
        • Aid
      • Basic honesty
      • Black-and-white
      • Bury your head in the sand
      • Out of touch
      • Tough-minded
      • Multi-layered
      • Beat around the bush
      • Cast the First Stone
      • The elephant in the room
      • Liars and truth-tellers
      • The Crow and the Fox
      • A devil in a holy water basin
      • Lie through your teeth
      • The devil’s advocate
      • Money-grubber
      • Comfort zone
      • Cast pearls before swine
    • What is Fair? What is Just?
    • Truth and misinformation
    • Unearthing the truth
    • Abject unscrupulous
    • Simple-minded
    • Act on shared values
    • Morally conscious
    • Moral behaviour
    • The Judgment of Solomon
    • Boys will be boys
    • Not Guilty
    • Rotherham scandal
    • Enigma
    • Modern Day Slavery
    • Justice delayed is denied
  • Metaphor
    • Metaphor
    • Self-awareness
    • A heinous miscalculation
    • There have been no answers
    • 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
        • The Germanwings Flight 9525 Crash
        • Herald of Free Enterprise
        • The Costa Concordia
        • Everything is contradictory
        • Examining the people and practices
        • Stop problems of misunderstanding
        • The notary and the bailiff and the Lawyers
      • A poisoned chalice
      • The Olive Grove
      • Pit against
      • The Ivory Tower
      • A very absurd issue
      • Bob Woodward
      • Robert Fisk
    • People without Conscience
    • Inequality
    • A Destructive Society
    • Turn a blind eye
    • Pendulum swing too far?
    • Evil does exist in this world
    • The blunt ax
    • The Blue Wall of Silence
    • Pull the wool over eyes
    • A long way to go
    • The tip of the iceberg
    • Everybody is a genius…
  • 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
        • Sex slavery
        • 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
        • Adoption Fraud
      • 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
    • The Rights of the Child
    • Make a fool of somebody
    • Words of wisdom
    • Confucius and Einstein
    • Keeping up appearances
    • Ethics
    • The bag of tricks
    • 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
    • The school of life
    • Why I dropped out?
    • A defining moment
    • You can’t judge a book…
    • Living in a bubble
    • A new priority, a new horizon
    • Why it is we do what we do?
      • Beforehand
      • Orientation of the spirit
        • Prof. dr. Dirk De Wachter
        • Rosa Parks 1955
        • The Nobel Peace Prize
        • Human Rights
        • Harriet Tubman
        • Sadness
        • 9/11 Beginning of closure
      • 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 Moral Compass
        • Misunderstanding
        • The wider picture
        • The Public Perception
        • How well you treated people
        • Dominant
        • Lectures and teachings
        • Yuval Noah Harari
        • Professor Jonathan Holslag
        • Gandhi
        • Dr. Martin Luther King jr.
        • Malcolm X assassination convictions overturned
      • The judge
      • The Lawyer
      • Who cares?
      • The Guildford Four
      • Saint Omer, near Calais
      • K. Strickland – It’s not justice
      • How Justice Really Works
      • Unfit and Sheer Incompetent
      • The psychiatrist
      • Criminal advocates
      • Belgian criminal lawyer
      • The Science of Justice
      • A justice system
      • Bill Gates
      • Injustice
      • Judge wiser
      • International Justice
      • The Nurenberg Trials
      • Osama bin Laden
      • The invasion of Ukraine
    • A different type of ball game
    • Immanent – ambivalent
    • Infernal for eternity
    • He was just a clown
    • Toby the Devil
    • 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
    • The Meaning of Life
    • Prince Harry – Glow of Life
    • Tears of happiness
    • Children of a Lesser God!
    • Top grade
    • The Bible
    • Islam
    • Letter to the Pope
    • Nick Vujicic
    • Nick Vujicic born no limbs
    • 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
        • Ina Post wrongly convicted
        • The Deventer murder case
        • It is absolutely devastating
        • Leopold II Congo Free State
        • Abject poverty
        • Organ Trafficking
        • Race
        • 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
    • Epilogue
    • Connecting the dots
    • Truth be told
      • To clarify the website
      • Wheels within wheels
      • The Shocking Truth
      • A bridge too far
      • Slip through the cracks
      • That’s the last straw
      • The story behind the story
      • As clear as mud
      • Philosophy
        • Virtue Ethics
        • Plato
        • Aristotle
        • Socrates
        • Immanuel Kant
          • The downward spiral
          • Why would you lie?
          • The justice trap
          • Beyond a shadow of a doubt
          • A senseless ordeal
          • BBC news
    • The Garden of Eden
    • Justice from the heart
    • Master of the Universe
    • In a nutshell
    • The making of
    • Table of contents
    • Full Table of Contents
    • Candid Camera contents
    • Downloads
    • Contact
    • Blog – Justice about us

Downloads

Paedophile case that could bring down the Napoleonic system (175 downloads)

This Harvard Grad Gave a Powerful Speech on Race and Education (191 downloads)

Ethics professors are no more ethical than the rest of us (198 downloads)

Sensual Pottery Class Prank

19 dec. 2015

Just For Laughs Gags

Back to menu

Sensual Pottery Class Prank

19 dec. 2015

Just For Laughs Gags

Back to menu

The website in a nutshell:

Hindsight is a wonderful thing
Another reality
The template for a society
Broken Justice
A skewed impression
Common sense
Copyright © 2022 Justice versus conscience         The website is not finished: content, lay-out and structure are still in progress.