Assignment 2: Relationship Between Law, Ethics and Justice
BUSINESS
ETHICS & CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
(EIB20103)
ASSIGNMENT
2
PREPARED
FOR:
PROFESSOR SR DATO’ DR KAMARUDIN MOHD NOR
PREPARED
BY:
NURBALQIS BINTI MOHD NASIR (62289113089)
BBA (HONS) ISLAMIC FINANCE
Explain
briefly the relationship between law, ethics and justice?
According to L. B Curzon law has been defines as the written and
unwritten body of rules largely derived from custom and formal enactment which
are recognized as binding among those persons who constitute a community or
state, so that they will be imposed upon and enforce among those persons by
appropriate sanctions. This shows that law is a set of rules that being set by
the legitimate government that must be strictly adhered to among the citizens.
It also had been develop in a long time period of time in order to regulate the
interactions between the people. It also determines what is right and duties of
the citizens towards one another and towards their state. When there is any of
them failure to follow the rule will results to appropriate punishment. Law also
is covered with political, social and economic relationships in the society.
For ethics comes
from Greek word “ethikos” which is means “arising from habit”. Ethics is
defined on human behavior of right and wrong, good and bad and proper and
improper of human action example in terms of fairness, honesty, murder,
slander, and other. Ethics is about morally correct behavior in human action in
order to behave with another person that will create a good relationship. It
cover how to live with a good life, human rights and responsibility, the
language of right and wrong and human moral decision. Ethics has been derived
from the religions, philosophy and culture of the people. It is important for
human to practice it because it will affect to the way of human beings behave
either good or bad.
A
justice is a moral rightness based
on the ethics that being performed by the people, rationality, law, natural
law, fairness, religion and equity. Justice is the result of the fair and also
the proper of administration of law. It is important for an individual in every
state because justice is the honesty and fairness that represent of facts
respecting the rightness. So, justice is the content of the obligations of one
person toward another.
Law
and ethics are intimately related with each other because law will enforce
the ethics. Basically, law is based on the moral principle of the society. Both
are needed with each other in order to create a great extent. The law is
creating form an ethical which have been chosen with the country, religion and
others. With combination of law and ethics as a result the enforcement of the
duties among the citizens is performed by the individual or if they did not
perform it will be punished according to the state law. Every people can behave
either good or bad, but the bad behavior is unethical behavior as a human. In
order to make sure that people are always behave with an ethical behavior so
that the state have to govern the law. With having the law, the citizens can be
treated fairly, had a legal professionals
practice with integrity. When there is conflict between the individual and
other parties, there is the law that should be followed. From the law it will
give justice to the both individuals because the law will result which
individual are right. Law, ethics and justice are complimentary with each other
because to guide citizens to have a good human behavior, to create the healthy
society between each other in order to have a better life and in order to prevent
any crime happened in the country.
Law and ethics are in two parallel lines which some
people feel that what are illegal maybe considered as ethical and another
people feel what considered legal maybe is considered unethical. For example,
it is not illegal to lie to a friend but many of people believe it is not an ethics.
This is why the government will amend the law based on the ethical of human behavior
that people on the state are considered to be ethical. This shows that law and
ethic is not the same things but it has a relationship in order to make people
became more ethical because the ethical duties are exceed the legal
requirements. There is some good example on how law is applied to the ethics
such as employment law, European regulation and codes and ethics. To the businesses
that applied this ethics and also policies will have a little or there is no
legal imbroglio with the governments, customers and employees.
Therefore, it is important to the government to
applied law, ethics and justice in their citizen life. When there is a law, all
people can behave like a good moral behavior and there will be always a justice
which is important for the human right.
References
Oluwaseun
P. Adeola (2010). “The Relationship between Law and Ethics” http://goodluck4ever.hubpages.com/hub/Law-and-Ethics-Relatioships
Steve
Sheppard (2003). “Law, Ethics and Justice” http://www.eolss.net/Sample-Chapters/C04/E6-31-03.pdf
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