Scales of justice

Spent day at Old Bailey watching murder trial. Fascinating. No mobiles or other devices allowed so had to be left at home. There could have been loads of blip ops outside the court. So have to make do with symbolic scales of justice.

"On the dome above the court stands a bronze statue of Lady Justice, executed by the British sculptor F. W. Pomeroy. She holds a sword in her right hand and the scales of justice in her left. The statue is popularly supposed to show blind Justice, however, the figure is not blindfolded: the courthouse brochures explain that this is because Lady Justice was originally not blindfolded, and because her “maidenly form” is supposed to guarantee her impartiality which renders the blindfold redundant." Source Wikipedia