COMMENT | In every society, in every age, there comes a moment when the law stands at a crossroads.

To the left lies safety - the well-worn path of precedent, the comfort of tradition, the applause of the powerful. To the right lies danger - the unknown territory of justice, the rocky ground of principle, the lonely summit of truth.

Most judges, like most people, take the safe path. They apply the law as written, follow the precedent as set, and sleep peacefully knowing they have disturbed no one.

But then, there are the others - the rare few who hear a different calling, who see a different vision, who dare to believe that law can be more than chains binding the present to the past.

These are the judges who changed the world. Not with armies or manifestos, but with words. Not with revolution, but with reason. Not with violence, but with vision. They are the ones who, when history called, answered: “Here I stand.”

Their stories are the stuff of legend.