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Title
Natural Justice: A revisit under the Nigerian Law |
Full text
http://dspace.unijos.edu.ng/handle/10485/251 |
Date
1997 |
Author(s)
Shoyele, Olugbenga A.; Angwe, Bern |
Abstract
CURRENT JOS LAW JOURNAL - Natural justice as a concept in legalism has been a subject of both incessant intellectual chicanery and straight controversies primarily because of an apparent inability to evolve a definition by which it can express itself. A panoramic perusal of available literature and jurisprudential expositions of judges and adjudicators in general debunks its qualifications with diverse adjectives, words and phrases like "high-sounding"; "vague"; "sadly lacking in precision" etc. The bottom line of all these propositions is that, natural justice, is incapable of " a strict and accurate definition"2. However, it is comforting as a prop for the base of this article to read Lord Reid's commentaries in the renowned case of Ridge v Baldwin,3 where he opined that: "The view that natural justice is so vague as to be practically meaningless is tainted by the perennial fallacy that because something cannot be cut and dried or nicely weighed or measured therefore it does not exist". This definitional quagmire compounded by the unwillingness of some judges to peremptorily accept any form of justice as natural, has made the concept even more susceptible to intellectual vacillations. It has been referred to at various times as "substantial justice",4 "fundamental justice;5 "universal justice",6 or "rational justice". |
Subject(s)
law |
Language
en |
Publisher
Matchers Publishing Ltd |
Relation
1997;VOLUME 3 NUMBER 3 |
Type of publication
Article |
Identifier
11182644 |
Repository
Jos - University of Jos
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