FAIRNESS


Meaning of FAIRNESS in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a sense of justice/fairness

I appealed to her sense of justice.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

procedural

A general concept of procedural fairness could therefore lead the courts into using and developing procedural forms other than classical adjudication.

That the development of procedural fairness does involve the court in a balancing function is undeniable.

No amount of procedural fairness could compensate for lack of knowledge of the complexities of the law.

Considerations of national security were however held to outweigh those of procedural fairness .

Lord Justice Woolf places great emphasis on justice as procedural fairness .

Finally there is a general duty of procedural fairness .

■ VERB

ensure

To ensure fairness a waiting list is always in operation.

At the same time, the report may genuflect toward ensuring fairness .

This is a natural impulse, and it often ensures a basic fairness in public systems.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

News reports should be held to a high standard of accuracy and fairness .

The judge has a record of fairness and non-discrimination.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But the majority of incumbents are afraid to take the risk on a little fairness .

I pay tribute to the fairness of the Home Office in dealing with the cases that have come to my attention.

If this transpires then the emergence of fairness really will have a substantial effect on the whole area of procedural due process.

On this view the distinction between the application of the terms natural justice and fairness is linguistic rather than substantive.

That is the extreme of the idea called justice as fairness .

The development of fairness within our jurisprudence has not as yet caused us to depart from the adjudicative framework within which we operate.

The truth and fairness of an advertising claim can be challenged for a variety of reasons.

There is remarkable consensus on the issue of tax fairness .

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