Dependency theory of justice

Law and justice depend on each other for their realization. This is what is commonly known as the dependency theory of justice.
Different people give different views on justice. Yet, to understand justice from the legal philosophy point of view, we must understand the basic soul of justice. Justice is an act of imparting fair relief to the disputing parties in order to achieve universal good to the humanity on the whole.
Justice in the end-means context:
Justice is always taken to be the end and law as well as legal processes work as means to that end. earlier, it was believed that peace is the ultimate end for human good, and later it was thought that security is the real ultimate end. But when we look at the social structure and the end-means structure of goals that lead us to a well organized balanced society, we find that justice plays a very vital role.
Justice depends on law and security of many in the society depend on justice and peace depends on the sense of security in people and the general well-being depends on the peace in society. as a result, justice is an end that law seeks, but justice is not the same as law.
Also, at times, justice happens or is done even in the absence of law. Law is something that has to be executed while justice is something that has to be achieved.
Dependency theory of Justice:
The theory that says that justice and law have a dependency relation that exists for the well being and harmony of the society is known as the dependency theory of justice.
This theory proposes that justice depends on law but is not the same as law.
Justice is imparted by judiciary of the state as per law,l but this is not the only way in which justice is imparted.
At times, some events happen in accordance of the laws of nature that are never unique to any one single state, and as a result of those happenings, the parties do receive justice that may not be imparted by the judiciary, but that may have been a result of the work of laws of nature.
Yet, even such a justice is seen to depend on the laws created by nature.
In short, justice that is a means to the final ends of security, peace and general well being, is an end that law seeks by working to be its means.

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