Title: Principles of natural justice
Headings: Principles of natural justice
Principles of natural justice
Principles of natural justice

Content: There is the emerging concept of fairness, which is larger in context than the rules of natural justice. • Fairness – the duty to act fairly – does not mean it to be a substitute for NJ – the administrative bodies in exercising their discretion owe a constitutional duty to perform it fairly and honestly to the best of their ability -–rather than to use the phrase as NJ – the procedure must be fair to all those who have an interest in the decision. • C. V. Das – Administrative Law & the Citizen, MLJ No.1981 • The principles of NJ do not apply to administrative bodies when the Nature of function they discharge is not analogous to judicial or when the nature of complaint does not fit into any of the recognized rules of NJ. • Case: The management receives a complaint on 6 workers for misconduct. The immediate respond is to suspend the allege workers for 1 week. Then the mgmt. Call for a meeting of the representative of the workmen in the CO’s employment to decide future fate of there 6 suspended colleagues. Based on the discussions/arguments as well as giving the rep. Opportunity to voice their opinion the mgmt decided a judgement to be passed on the 6 workers to be terminated. –