To some, it is not, so long as the court dotted the i's and crossed the t's. Court uber alles!
If the law supposes that, said Mr. Bumble,
the law is a assa idiot. If thats the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experienceby experience.
CHARLES DICKENS, Oliver Twist, chapter 51, p. 489 (1970). First published serially 18371839.