The Importance Of Legal Reparation

Register to read the introduction… The justice system has the ability to correct inequality created by standing and times bars by exercising their inherent power of equity. The power of equity found in courts today was established in the common-law England where the normal court channels have been to procedurally too harsh on litigants seeking for relief (90). The establishment of courts of the chancery and equity allowed for the judges of that court to decide on cases based on the equity and substantive justice of the case (90). The court could use its equity powers to help the disadvantaged in the justice system such as reparations cases. The court in regards to the time bar, could exercise the equitable estopple power which allows the time bar to be extended for plaintiffs where the malicious defendants have attempted to inhibit their right to file a lawsuit within a timely manner (90). Blacks, who have been, for the longest time in America’s history, been denied of their basic rights clearly had always been unable to pursue relief for social injustices. In order for reparations to be effective, courts must take these cases in a special way and see past the legal procedures that inhibit its ability correct past social injustices. The courts unwillingness to exercise these powers demonstrates the inequity Africans face in the legal system. In the plethora of years of oppression and the denial of their rights, their rights have not been …show more content…
This requires an organized movement and identification of a political message that appeals to a particular audience. It requires all the prerequisites of a political campaign (29). The claimants must not only use their cases as a private cases that attempt to win monetary compensation but also instruments to persuade both political authorities and the public about the justice of their claims. Those seeking reparations must simplify the argument for the general public forming a clearly identifiable group and united and have influential allies (32). They must be able to identify a clear respondent that can be shown to have done past injustices (32). Those seeking reparations must change the current trends does not seem to be in favor of reparations. This has made the issues of obtaining reparations face a plethora of legal complexities requiring the navigation of complex legal institutions such lobbying of those in political office, making reparation extremely difficult to