Word for the Week

The Rule of Law

Week beginning: 24th April, 2022 | By HHJ Mark Cawson | Manchester

You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality, and you shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of the righteous. Justice, and only justice, you shall follow, that you may live and inherit the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

Deuteronomy 16:18-20 (ESV)

As part of his farewell address to the people as they prepare for their entrance into Canaan, Moses gave these instructions for the appointment of judges in order to judge the people with righteous justice and fairness.

These few verses are particul