By means of detailed engagement with a case heard in a police victim support unit, Chapter 3 brings an ethnographic lens to bear upon the complex and ambiguous interaction of the so-called ‘formal’ and ‘traditional’ spheres outlined in the previous chapter. The aim is to tease out some of the implications of the ways in which rights are grappled with in the language of ufulu (‘freedom’ and the common shorthand for human rights). This chapter also introduces questions of justice that animate the rest of the book, arguing for the analytical potential of justice as a concept that opens up, as opposed to foreclosing, attention to life as it is lived, in all of its existential, moral complexity.