y, 0000 00:00 Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Course Lecturer Dean Knight Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law Associate, New Zealand Centre for Public Law Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand PhD Candidate London School of Economics and Political Science United Kingdom Email: dean.knight@vuw.ac.nz Course Outline Lord Justice Lawton in Maxwell v Department of Trade and Industry [0000] 0 All ER 000 said: "From time to time ... lawyers and judges have tried to define what constitutes fairness. Like defining an elephant, it is not easy to do, although fairness in practice has the elephantine quality of being easy to recognise. As a result of these efforts a word in common usage has acquired the trappings of legalism: 'acting fairly' has become 'acting in accordance with the rules of natural justice', and on occasion has been dressed up with Latin tags. This phrase in my opinion serves no useful purpose and in recent years it has encouraged lawyers to try to put those who hold inquiries into legal straitjackets.... For the purposes of my judgment I intend to ask myself this simple question: did the [decision-maker] act fairly towards the plaintiff?" This course examines the elephantine concept of fairness in the law, along with other contemporary legal issues. Course Archive - 0000 (0) - September (0) - August (0) - 0000 (0) - March (0) - 0000 (0) - October (0) - June (0) - April (0) - 0000 (0) - April (0) - February (0) - January (0) - 0000 (00) - December (0) - November (0) - October (0) - September (0) - July (0) - June (0) - May (0) - April (0) - February (0) - January (0) - 0000 (00) - December (0) - November (0) - October (0) - September (00) - August (0) - July (0) - June (0) - May (0) - April (0) - March (0) - February (0) - January (0) ▼ 0000 (00) - November (0) - October (0) - September (0) - August (0) - July (0) - May (0) - April (0) - March (0) ▼ February (0) 