natural justice
Fair hearing rights
Natural justice refers to fundamental principles of fair procedure, especially in legal and administrative contexts.
The core requirements are that no one should judge their own case and that all parties deserve a fair hearing before decisions affecting them.
The tribunal's refusal to let her respond violated natural justice.
The term appears more often in British and Commonwealth legal systems than American ones.
- impartialityFreedom from prejudice
- equityImpartial treatment or ownership value
- level playing fieldEqual competitive conditions
- fair shakeEquitable treatment or opportunity
- judicial reviewCourts invalidating unconstitutional acts
due process · human dignity · accountability · proportionality · fair hearing · day in court · open court · reasonableness · transparency · administrative law · rule of law · neutrality · legal equality · moral integrity · clean hands · ethical reasoning · consistency · trustworthiness
- fairnessfair play, fair shake, fair treatment, fair and square, fair share
- rightscivil liberties, constitutional rights, right, rights, human rights
- legal rightslegal rights, constitutional rights, fundamental rights, Miranda rights, Bill of Rights
- administrative lawadjudication, judicial review, regulatory agency, rulemaking, public authorities
- natural lawuniversal law, moral law, right to life, divine law, Aquinas
- South Asian Lawhigh courts, high court, Muslim law, fundamental rights, advocate
natural justicekangaroo court
Illegitimate proceeding ignoring procedure
star chamber · bias · prejudgment · show trial · railroading
natural justicetyranny
Oppressive, absolute governance
despotism · absolutism · autocratic rule · lawlessness · rule by decree
natural, justice, nature, just, naturally, unnatural, naturalism, naturalist, naturalistic