Talk:Natural justice
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Natural justice having no specialised meaning
I removed the following sentence:
- Natural justice has become a legal term of art, especially in administrative law.
From my reading and observation, the actual practice and application of law rarely resorts to this concept, since codes and statutes are generally in place and provide more concrete support for legal arguments (appealing to something like natural justice might often come across as an admission that you don't actually have any established law to support your position). Calling it a term of art is misleading, in my opinion, as the phrase has no specialized meaning in any particular field of law, so far as I'm aware. Closer to the truth would be to describe it as a rhetorical term in legal philosophy. --Michael Snow 19:29, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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- Natural justice is a legal principle
- That may be true in the US, but in Australia (and probably the UK) 'natural justice' is used interchangably with 'procedural fairness', a firmly entrenched legal doctrine (at both common law and codified in our primary administrative review statute) consisting of two primary principles: (1) that a person should have the chance to be heard on a matter affecting their rights or interests ('the hearing rule'), and (2) that decision-makers should be free from real or apprehended bias.
- - Queens-counsel 12:11, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
