'I know it when I see it': what is procedural fairness?

By John Wilson
Updated April 24 2018 - 10:35pm, first published June 29 2017 - 10:43am

Of hardcore pornography, a United States Supreme Court judge once wrote: "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that."

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