noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sense of justice/fairness
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I appealed to her sense of justice.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
procedural
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A general concept of procedural fairness could therefore lead the courts into using and developing procedural forms other than classical adjudication.
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That the development of procedural fairness does involve the court in a balancing function is undeniable.
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No amount of procedural fairness could compensate for lack of knowledge of the complexities of the law.
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Considerations of national security were however held to outweigh those of procedural fairness .
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Lord Justice Woolf places great emphasis on justice as procedural fairness .
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Finally there is a general duty of procedural fairness .
■ VERB
ensure
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To ensure fairness a waiting list is always in operation.
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At the same time, the report may genuflect toward ensuring fairness .
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This is a natural impulse, and it often ensures a basic fairness in public systems.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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News reports should be held to a high standard of accuracy and fairness .
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The judge has a record of fairness and non-discrimination.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the majority of incumbents are afraid to take the risk on a little fairness .
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I pay tribute to the fairness of the Home Office in dealing with the cases that have come to my attention.
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If this transpires then the emergence of fairness really will have a substantial effect on the whole area of procedural due process.
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On this view the distinction between the application of the terms natural justice and fairness is linguistic rather than substantive.
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That is the extreme of the idea called justice as fairness .
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The development of fairness within our jurisprudence has not as yet caused us to depart from the adjudicative framework within which we operate.
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The truth and fairness of an advertising claim can be challenged for a variety of reasons.
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There is remarkable consensus on the issue of tax fairness .