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Natural justice, the aim of the rules of natural justice is to secure justice or to put it negatively to prevent miscarriage of justice. These rules can operate only in areas not covered by any law validly made. In other words they supplant the rules of natural justice which are not embodied rules. What particular rule of natural justice should apply to a given case must depend to a great extent on the facts and circumstances of that case, the frame-work of the law under which the enquiry is held and the constitution of the Tribunal pointed for the purpose, A.K. Kraipak v. Union of India, AIR 1970 SC 150: (1969) 2 SCC 262.Historically, 'natural justice' has been used in a way 'which implies the existence of moral principles of self-evidence and unarguable truth'. In course of time, judges nurtured in the traditions of British jurisprudence, often involved it in conjunction with a reference to 'equity and good conscience'. Legal experts of earlier generations did not draw any distinctio...
Justices
Justices, officers deputed by the Crown to ad-minister justice and do right by way of judgment. The judges of the Supreme Court are called justices, but the word is usually applied to petty magistrates who sit to administer summary justice in minor matters, and who are commonly called justices of the peace. They were first appointed in 1327 by 1 Edw. 3, st. 2, c. 16, and are now appointed by the king's special commission under the Great Seal, the form of which was settled by all the judges in 1590, and continues, with little alteration, to this day. Consult Putnam's Early Treatises on the Practice of the Justices of the Peace in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. This appoints them all, jointly and severally, to keep the peace in the county named; and any two or more of them to inquire of and determine felonies and other misdemeanours in such county committed, in which number some particular justices, or one of them, are directed to be always included, and no business done without ...
Commutative justice and distributive justice
Commutative justice and distributive justice, Aristotle's doctrine of justice of equality is called by him commutative justice which requires at least two persons while distributive justice requires at least three. Relative equality in treating different persons while grating relief according to need, or reward and punishment according to merit and guilt is the essence of distributive justice. While in commutative justice the two persons confront each other as co-equals, there or more persons are necessary in distributive justice in which one, who imposes burdens upon or grants advantages to the others, is superior to them. 'Therefore, it presupposes an act of distributive justice which has granted to those concerned, equality to rights, equal capacity to act, equal status.' [The Legal Philosophies of Lask, Radbruch and Dabin, p. 74] According to Radbruch, 'distributive justice is the prototype of justice. In it we have found the idea of justice, toward which the concept of law must be...
self-insure
self-insure : to insure by self-insurance (as in workers' compensation) [an employer wishing to its liability "Pennsylvania Statutes"] vi : to use self-insurance [a governmental agency that s] self-in·sur·er n ...
Self acting
Acting of or by ones self or by itself said especially of a machine or mechanism which is made to perform of or for itself what is usually done by human agency automatic as a self acting feed apparatus a self acting mule a self acting press...
Self government
The act of governing ones self or the state of being governed by ones self self control self command...
Legal justice and natural justice
Legal justice and natural justice, the expression 'natural justice' and 'legal justice' do not present a water-tight classification. It is the substance of justice which is to be secured by both, and whenever legal justice fails to achieve this solemn purpose, natural justice is called in aid of legal justice. Natural justice relieves legal justice from unnecessary technicality, grammatical pedantry or logical prevarication. It supplies the omissions of a formulated law, Canara Bank v. Debasis Das, AIR 2003 SC 2041 (2047): (2003) 4 SCC 557....
Self appraisal
Self appraisal, the method of performance appraisal is based on the self-appraisal by the officer concerned. It is a method where the employee is asked to give, in his own words, his strong points, weak points and constraints faced by him in the service. The self-appraisal is then considered by the reporting officer who gives his remarks. Finally the higher reviewing authority decides the assessment by weighting both the employee's self-appraisal and the remarks given by the reporting officer, A.P. State Financial Corpn. v. C.M. Ashok Raju, AIR 1995 SC 39 (41): (1994) 5 SCC 359....
Administration of justice
Administration of justice, means the right with a political community by means of the physical force of the State; the State's application of the sanction of force to the rule of right, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 45.Administration of justice has a wide meaning and includes administration of civil as well as criminal justice. The expression 'administration of justice' is wide enough to include the 'powers and jurisdiction of all the courts including the High Courts except the Supreme Court, Jamshed N. Guzdar'v. State of Maharashtra, (2005) 2 SCC 591. [Constitution of India, List 111, Entry 11A, Schedule 7]The word 'Administration of Justice in List 111, Entry 11-A in 7th Schedule of Constitution only shows that, the Topic ' Administration of Justice can be legislated on both by Union as well as the State legislatures, Union of India v. Cadell Weaving Mills Co. (P) Ltd., (2005) 2 SCC 590.--the expression 'administration of justice' has wide amplitude covering conferment of genera...
imperfect self-defense
imperfect self-defense : a defense based on self-defense that does not shield the defendant from all liability but reduces the liability esp. because the defendant actually but unreasonably believed that he or she was in imminent danger of death or great bodily injury NOTE: Imperfect self-defense is not recognized in all jurisdictions. When it is successfully used in criminal cases it eliminates the element of malice, reducing the level of the offense from murder to manslaughter. ...
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