ABSTRACT
It is important for students of Caribbean public law to appreciate that natural justice in the Caribbean context has a far more extensive basis than in the UK, simply because of the influence of West Indian constitutions as well as legislation upon it. So a study of natural justice involves much more than the valiant attempts by the common law to develop a coherent set of principles to guide the process of informed decision making. It is true that the common law, almost single-handedly, developed the principles of natural justice, while tracing its roots from natural and divine laws.1 Despite a short period of vacillation and uncertainty when the foundations of natural justice were truly insecure and shaky,2 the courts have, since Ridge v Baldwin,3 restored the principles of natural justice to a pedestal such that it is perhaps the most important developmental area of public law today.
