Legal Quiz on Natural Justice

NATURAL JUSTICE QUIZ

1.     What is the object of the doctrine of natural justice?

a.      To ensure fundamental liberties and rights of subjects.

b.     To secure justice

c.      To prevent miscarriage of justice

d.     All of the above

2.     “The aim of the rules of natural justice is to secure justice or to put it negatively to prevent miscarriage of justice.” – This was held in which of the following cases

a.      A.K. Kraipak v/s Union of India

b.     Maneka Gandhi v/s Union of India

c.      Olga Tellis v/s Bombay Municipal Corpn.

d.     None of the above

3.     What are the principles of natural justice?

a.      Nemo debet esse judex in propria causa

b.     Audi alteram partem

c.      Both

d.     None of the above

4.     ‘Nemo debet esse judex in propria causa’ means –

a.      No man shall be a judge in his own cause

b.     No man can act as both at the one and the same party – a party or a suitor and also a judge

c.      Deciding authority must be impartial and without bias.

d.     All of the above

5.     ‘Audi alteram partem’ means –

a.      Hear the other side

b.     Both the sides must be heard

c.      No man shall be condemned unheard

d.     All of the above

6.     There are how many types of bias?

a.      3

b.     4

c.      2

d.     5

7.     A bias in which a judge is a relative or a friend or a business associate of a party is known as –

a.      Pecuniary bias

b.     Personal bias

c.      Official bias

d.     Judicial obstinacy

8.     What is the test for being biased

a.      Whether he was actually biased

b.     Whether there is reasonable ground for believing that he was biased

c.      Whether he was impartial

d.     None of the above

9.     The bias in which the judge has a general interest in the subject matter –

a.      Pecuniary bias

b.     Personal bias

c.      Official bias

d.     Judicial obstinacy

10. Judicial obstinacy was founded in which of the following cases?

a.      State of W.B. v/s Shivananda Pathak

b.     A.K. Kraipak v/s Union of India

c.      Maneka Gandhi v/s Union of India

d.     Olga Tellis v/s Bombay Municipal Corpn.

1 (d), 2(a), 3(c), 4(d), 5(d), 6(b), 7(b), 8(b), 9(c), 10(a)