But I will
Predictability implies that the result tends to be the same or very similar every time a type of issue comes out. It implies that everyone is treated in the same, predictable manner. Hence the answer is the rule of law, not justice.
Justice is not predictable. It includes notions such as equality which implies predictability,but also fairness indicating that each case is not predictable and determined on its own merits. Further, the notion of how a reasonable person would respond to achieve justice is difficult to predict - the rule of law has THE most predictable outcome of all the options, hence being most correct I strongly believe.
i chose justice for this question. when i was doing the question i was tossing between justice and the rule of law. in the end, i decided to go with justice because i remembered reading the term "predictability" in the syllabus themes, it was something like "evalutate the effectiveness of the law in terms of...predictability". and since justice is commonly associated with 'the effectiveness of the legal system' [in the context of this course anyway], i figured it wud be most closely linked to justice.
however, from the 2008 mc, if "certainty" is an outcome of the application of the rule of law, then you would think that "predictability" is as well.
irrespectively, i think predictability is still an important component of justice.
we all no that a feature of a just law is that it "aligns to the moral and ethical precepts that a majority of society holds" (source: almost every single HSC legal studies text book)
in the application of any just law, society should be able to predict its outcome as it conforms to these "ethical and moral precepts".
also, predictability = like cases being treated alike = justice.
unpredictablity = randomness in outcome = injustice
in the application of the rule of law, we dont know what the outcome is going to be, we only know that what ever the outcome is going to be, it will be applied equally to everyone, as " noone is above the law"