The Unmoving Scales of Justice

Because the law is cast in concrete and rendered immobile at the time of the injury, the scales of justice must be fixated on this law. To keep the scales "balanced" and "fixated" with the law at the time of the injury, the evaluation of what each party places on the scale must be full, complete and impartial. This is justice.

In some countries, the law is like a perpetual pendulum at the time an injury is sustained. The outcome is always far from certain. In America, however, the outcome of adversary proceedings is most often determined by the principles of stare decisis and finality. (Or so it is said to be made to believe.)