Short Essay on Natural Justice – Natural justice has become the basic principle of law, whereby it is assumed that justice is not meted out unless certain procedural rules are observed.
The Natural Justice is assumed to be yet another name of natural law, which the judges have used very creatively to deliver justice. The use of the expression ‘natural justice’ implies the existence of moral principles of self-evident truth.
One of the very basic principles of natural justice is called Audi Alteram Partem rule. The rule stipulates that no one shall be condemned unheard. In other words, an adverse decision cannot be passed against a party without giving him proper opportunity to present his case and thereby tell his side of the truth.
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Similarly, the other principle of natural justice is that no man can be a judge in his own case. It is felt that one cannot be expected to be impartial when any of his interests is involved. This does not only mean that one cannot be a judge when one is party but also that he could not be the judge, also, in the case where the subject matter is of interest to his near and dear one.
Whether he actually has a bias or not, need not be established because it is important that not only should there be actual impartiality, but also that there should be no room for anyone to suspect the lack of it.
Supreme Court held that even in such cases where the principles of natural justice might defeat the very purpose of an action, this principle has to be observed even if it means, observing it after the action has been taken; but observed it must be.