Fīat jūstitia ruat cælum is a Latin legal phrase, meaning "Let justice be done though

the heavens fall." The maxim signifies the belief that justice must be realized regardless
of consequences. According to the 19th-century abolitionist politician Charles Sumner, it
does not come from any classical source.[1] It has also been ascribed to Lucius
Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, see "Piso's justice". It was used in the landmark
judgment Somerset v Stewart, where slavery was held to be unlawful at common law.[2]
"Let Justice be done. If the Heavens should fall." The University of Saskatchewan
College of Law uses the first half of the phrase as their motto, simply: "Fiat Justitia".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_justitia_ruat_caelum

What I like most about this maxim is the essence and mere foundations of having our
courts of justice. It speaks or reflects that the court really wants justice to prevail even
the consequences of letting it happen would make the society suffer. But those
sufferings or attacks to the morals of the society during that time before giving the right
justice attacks the very core of a conservative society that do not want to accept
change. As our society accept the true meaning of justice, we can say that we are
adopting for the better change.

They say that in a civil world, different people with different beliefs, morals, attributes,
and ideology, almost all, or all are different because we were given uniqueness that
needs to be praised by oneself before accepting the others. Nevertheless, even though
thousands of words could separate us by describing each and every one or any group
or any race, we are able to learn from each other, living with each other and adopting to
each other.

The progress could be achieved by our society by learning to give what is really right,
the true form of justice without prejudice

Looking at the past

It was used in the landmark judgment Somerset v Stewart, where slavery was held to be unlawful
at common law.[2]

Somerset was free and his supporters, who included both black and white Londoners, celebrated a
great victory. Whilst argument by counsel may have been based primarily on legal technicalities,
Lord Mansfield appeared to believe that a great moral question had been posed and he deliberately
avoided answering that question in full, because of its profound political and economic
consequences.
Lord Mansfield is often misquoted as declaring that "this air is too pure for a slave to breathe in", but
no such words appear in the judgment. Instead, these words are part of the peroration of William
Davy SL for Somerset, who previously had cited a report of a 1569 case, in the reign of Queen
Elizabeth I, in which "one Cartwright brought a slave from Russia and would scourge him; for which
he was questioned; and it was resolved, that England was too pure an air for a slave to breathe in".
It is not clear that this was said in the Cartwright case. Some legal historians think it was a misquote
of an excerpt from Lord Chief Justice Holt's judgment in Smith v Brown,[9] in which he is reported to
have said: "as soon as a negro comes to England he is free; one may be a villein in England, but not
a slave."

During that era, people’s morals are questionable

We need to thank those brave judges who believed that justice should prevail over
traditions or customs that had blacken our morals and standards.

Let us be educated that by doing or giving what is right would mean we are upholding
our humanity.

The Somerset case became a significant part of the common law of slavery in the English-speaking
world, and helped launch abolitionism.[26] Lord Mansfield's ruling contributed to the concept that
slavery was contrary "both to natural law and the principles of the English Constitution", a position
adopted by abolitionists.[27]

The phrase denotes that justice should be carried out regardless of the situation or
consequences. It calls for an urgent necessity of justice.

Judge James Horton referred to the maxim while explaining the change in his decision
regarding the Scottsboro Boys trial in 1933.