Honest Speech in Court
Speaking falsely in legal proceedings perverts justice. Truth must prevail in all official matters.
Speaking falsely in legal proceedings perverts justice. Truth must prevail in all official matters.
I have not spoken lies in the tribunal. I have not known what is not. I speak only what I have witnessed.
Legal Ethics
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- What ancient Egypt says about what to say and what to leave unsaid
Here silence stops being a virtue. The same confession list that forbids being loud-voiced forbids lying in the tribunal, which means Egypt recognised rooms where withholding what you saw is itself the offence.