Natural Justice Case Study

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1) INTRODUCTION
The Principles of Natural Justice (PNJ) form the cornerstone of administrative law in India, in specific, and across existing legal systems in countries across the world, in general. In India, there has been no statutory limit that has been set within which the administrative agencies are supposed to exercise their decision making powers. This limit has been set by the Indian judiciary through various decisions over the years, through application of the PNJ.
Simply put, PNJ entails fairness, equity and equality. In a welfare state like India, the role and jurisdiction of the administrative agencies are increasing manifold with the passage of time. The concept of Rule of Law would lose its validity if the instrumentalities of the state are not
The Rule against Bias flows from the following two principles:
i) No one should be a judge in his own cause ii) “Justice should not only be done but manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done”-Lord Hewart, the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales.
The essence of this principle is to ensure impartiality in decision making. Without impartiality, public confidence cannot be maintained in the legal system. A lack of impartiality would result in loss of nobility of the legal system and would ensure chaos. Lord Denning observed in Metropolitan Properties Co. (F.G.C.) Ltd. V. Lannon : “Justice must be rooted in confidence and confidence is destroyed when right-minded people go away thinking: 'The judge was biased.'"
However, impartiality of the judge is not required in isolation. In addition, it is required that the judge is in a position to apply his mind objectively to the dispute before him. The Rule against Bias, thus, has two main aspects:
i) The administrator exercising adjudicatory powers must not have any personal or proprietary interest in the outcome of the

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