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I need some assistance with these assignment. what is meant by natural justice Thank you in advance for the help!

I need some assistance with these assignment. what is meant by natural justice Thank you in advance for the help! There are two aspects of the principles of natural justice, the first one being that the defendant is given a fair hearing and the second being that the proceedings and decision should be free of any kind of bias or pre-conceived notions against him/her.

Coming to the arena of sports, natural justice could be seen in terms of the fact that natural justice is truly speaking minimum standards of fair decision-making that need to be taken by powerful monopolistic administrative sports bodies, who could even bend the rules to suit their vested interests in more ways than one. This being so, sports governing bodies are expected to be fair, reasonable and impartial in the ways in which they conduct their disciplinary proceedings. There are two main Latin principles, inter alia, that of nemo judex causa sua and another of audi alteram partem, which govern sports justice. The first nemo judex causa sua, meaning, no person can be his own judge.

Bath 1926 AC 586 in which the Lord Chancellor was the judge. Although the LC had an interest in the setting up of the canal this fact transpired only after the case was adjudicated by the LC. The later Court set aside this judgment on the grounds that Nemo judex causa sua or interest in the case was present in the adjudicating process. “It is in this sense that it is often said that justice must not only be done but must also appear to be done.” (Summary, 2010).

Again, in the case of sports laws, it is quite possible that adjudicators or the legal body conducting the inquiry may have some kind of pre-established bias, or discrimination in favor, or against parties. If this is so, either such interests need to be disclosed, so as not vitiate the course of proceedings, or such decisions could be waived or set aside by the parties. This was put to test in the case of Wayde v. New South Wales Rugby League Ltd (1975). in which the aspects of whether the directors of the league had the necessary discretionary powers to set out the teams to admitted to the tournament and reject teams outright.

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