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Reasonableness and in public interest

Gandhi case, (1978) 2 SCR 621: (1978) 1 SCC 248 that Article 14 strikes at arbitrariness in State action and since the principle of reasonableness and rationality, which is legally as well as philoso-phically an essential element … Reasonableness and in public interest, the integra-tion of Articles 14, 19 and 21 analysed by this Court in Maneka

Damages

Ely Beet Sugar Factory, (1936) 1 Ch 343. (3) Substantial Damages, i.e., the fair and adequate compensation which reasonable men would award in respect of the matters which formed the basis of the action. (4) Vindictive, Retributory,

Impracticability

different from 'impossibility' for while the latter is absolute, the former introduces at all events some degree of reason and involves some regard for practice. 'Impracticable' presupposes that the action is 'possible' but owing to certain practical

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Justification

Justification, a maintaining or showing a sufficient reason in court why the defendant did what he is called upon to answer, particularly in an action of

Reasonable

Matched in: Term Reasonable

Reason to believe

that a thing, condition, statement or fact exists. It only means facts which prima facie will convince any reasonable person under the circumstances of the case to form a belief that will impel him to take action

Trade Union

House of Lords, after consulting eight judges, and reversing the judgment of the Court of Appeal, that no action lay against Mr. Allen (who was the London delegate of the boiler-makers' society) by two dismissed shipwrights for … (34 & 35 Vict. c. 31), provides:- S. 2. 'The purposes of any trade union shall not, by reason merely that they are in restraint of trade, be deemed to be unlawful, so as to render any

False imprisonment

1 KB 595; Herd v. Weardale Steel Co., 1915 AC 67. The onus of proving the defence of reasonable or probable cause lies on the defendant. An action for false imprisonment must not be confused with one

Reasonable opportunity

Matched in: Term Reasonable opportunity

Victimisation

capable of two different interpretations: It connotes a person who became the victim of the employer's wrath by reason of his trade union activities; it also connotes a victim of unfair and arbitrary action. When a word

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