Normal Anglo-American legal system understands this as "justice delayed is equivalent to denying justice", or we can understand it as "law delayed is against justice" from another angle.
Its significance is the criticism of "late justice" and dissatisfaction with the inefficiency of court trial, which shows that late justice is not the real justice for all. And your sentence is taken out of context, completely overthrowing the original idea, but praising the late justice.
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Related legal proverbs
1, the law needs faith, otherwise it is useless. Douglas
2. Obey the law: Neither I nor anyone can get rid of the glorious bondage of the law. -Rousseau
3. The highest level of the concept of rule of law is to believe that the basis of all laws should be respect for human values. Chen Hongyi
4. Justice is not a part of virtue, but the whole of virtue; On the contrary, injustice is not a part of evil, but the whole of evil. -Aristotle
Once the country loses justice, it will become a huge gang. -Augustine's City of God
6. Justice has a face like Proteus, which is changeable, can take different shapes at any time, and has a very different look. Bodenheimer
7. People are born free, but they are everywhere in chains. -Rousseau
8. Law is the revealed morality, and morality is the hidden law. Lincoln
9, the law should be stable, but it can't stop. -Pounds
10, laws and systems must keep up with the progress of human thought. Jefferson