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The document discusses the principles of natural justice, highlighting key cases such as Dimes v Grand Junction Canal Proprietors and Aboagye v Ghana Commercial Bank. It emphasizes the importance of fairness, reasonableness, and legality in administrative justice, as well as the rules against bias and the right to be heard. Key legal concepts include 'audi alteram partem' and 'nemo judex in causa sua,' which underscore the necessity of impartiality and the right to prior notice in legal proceedings.
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NATURAL JUSTICE notes

The document discusses the principles of natural justice, highlighting key cases such as Dimes v Grand Junction Canal Proprietors and Aboagye v Ghana Commercial Bank. It emphasizes the importance of fairness, reasonableness, and legality in administrative justice, as well as the rules against bias and the right to be heard. Key legal concepts include 'audi alteram partem' and 'nemo judex in causa sua,' which underscore the necessity of impartiality and the right to prior notice in legal proceedings.
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NATURAL JUSTICE Dimes v Grand Junction Canal Proprietors

10 E.R 301
 Article 23
Tsatsu Tsikata v Chief Justice and Attorney-
General. [2001-2002] SCGLR 437
Administrative Justice
Agyei Twum v Attorney-General &
Akwetey [2005-2006] SCGLR 732

Legality Fairness Reasonableness


AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM

 Actions which would diminish your


Case: Aboagye v. Ghana Commercial Bank rights.
 When your accrued rights are
“…acting fairly implies the application of
threatened.
rules of natural justice which have been
 Legitimate Expectation.
elevated to constitutional rights…”
 Prior notice.

Ridge v Baldwin [1964] AC 40


Rules of natural justice: The rule against
Republic v State Fishing Commission of
bias and the rule to be heard-Lord
Enquiry
Denning.( Nemo judex in causa sua-No
man Judge in his own cause and Audi
alteram Partem)

R v Sussex Justices; Ex Parte


McCarthy[1924] 1 KB 256,259- established
Nemo judex

Attorney-General v Sallah S.C. 17.4.70.

Republic v High Court, Denu; Ex Parte


Agbesi Awusu II(No.2) (Nyonyo Agboada
(Sri III) Interested Party) [2003-2004] 2
SCGLR 907

Republic v Akwapim Traditional Council; Ex


Parte Nyarko III [1975] 2 GLR 362

R v Bow Street Metropolitan Stipendiary


Magistrate, ex parte Pinochet Ugarte (No
2) (Pinochet II) [2000] 1 AC 61

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