Quasi Judicial
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
Quasi judicial, the expression 'quasi judicial' is not always used with clarity and accurately. Custo-dian, though not a court in the ordinary sense, is an authority which exercises judicial functions or functions analogous to the judicial, and thus he is described as a 'quasi judicial' authority, Parduman Singh v. State of Punjab, AIR 1958 Punj 63.
It is a term that is ............ not easily definable. In the United States, the phrase often covers judicial decisions taken by an administrative agency -- the test is the nature of the tribunal rather than what it is doing. In England quasi-judicial belongs to the administrative category and is used to cover situations where the administrator is bound by the law to observe certain forms and possibly hold a public hearing but where he is a free agent in reaching the final decision. If the rules are broken, the determination may be set aside, but it is not sufficient to show that the administration is biasedin favour of a certain policy, or that the evidence points to a different conclusion, A Textbook of jurisprudence George Whitecross Paton 336 (G.W. Paton and David P. Derham, Editors, 4th Edn., 1972.
Means of relating to, or involving an executive or administrative official's adjudicative acts. Quasi-judicial acts, which are valid if there is no abuse of discretion, often determine the fundamental rights of citizens. They are subject to review by courts, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1258.
It is a term that is ............ not easily definable. In the United States, the phrase often covers judicial decisions taken by an administrative agency -- the test is the nature of the tribunal rather than what it is doing. In England quasi-judicial belongs to the administrative category and is used to cover situations where the administrator is bound by the law to observe certain forms and possibly hold a public hearing but where he is a free agent in reaching the final decision. If the rules are broken, the determination may be set aside, but it is not sufficient to show that the administration is biasedin favour of a certain policy, or that the evidence points to a different conclusion, A Textbook of jurisprudence George Whitecross Paton 336 (G.W. Paton and David P. Derham, Editors, 4th Edn., 1972.
Means of relating to, or involving an executive or administrative official's adjudicative acts. Quasi-judicial acts, which are valid if there is no abuse of discretion, often determine the fundamental rights of citizens. They are subject to review by courts, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1258.
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