Natural Justice Quotes

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

Apprehension [about the French Revolution] is, that a majority cannot be induced to adopt the trial by jury; and I consider that as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution....

I do think that Magna Carta and international law are worth paying some attention to.

Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.

Alok Verma cannot be sacked based on the Central Vigilance Commission's (CVC) report without being heard. PM Modi should not listen to bogus legal brains.

Since the thirteenth century at least,--that is, since the Magna Carta,--England has been the bulwark of modern law.

Is it rather stupid and dangerous to take Magna Carta so much for granted, as many of us seem to do, and to think of this attitude as 'very English?'

Human rights are inscribed in the hearts of people; they were there long before lawmakers drafted their first proclamation.

The constitution [of England] does not allow reasons of State to influence our judgment: God forbid it should! We must not regard political consequences; how formidable soever they might be; if rebellion was the certain consequence, we are bound to say, Fiat justitia, ruat coelum

No, I think that we've got a basic discrepancy here between the rule of law versus the rule of man.

The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.

Procedural fairness and regularity are of the indispensable essence of liberty. Severe substantive laws can be endured if they are fairly and impartially applied.

Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect him from being injured by them.

Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.

Crime generally punishes itself.

The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested.

There is such a thing as justice which is not necessarily the same thing as law.

Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts.

Written laws are formulas in which we endeavor to express as concisely as possible that which, under such or such determined circumstances, natural justice demands.

A first principle of Anglo-American jurisprudence is that the ends do not justify the means.

The Constitution has a good share of deliberately open-ended guarantees, like rights to due process of law, equal protection of the law, and freedom from unreasonable searches.

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

We must have order, allocating to each thing its proper place and giving to each thing is due according to its nature.

Rule of law is based on probable cause.