“Be fair”.
25. Briefly, all these above mentioned rules can be condensed into a dictum of two words: “Be fair”. In this regard, one is reminded of the most important advice given by a father to his son in the passage popularly known as Polonius advice to Laertes in the immortal play of Hamlet by William Shakespeare: This above all: to thine own self be true, This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Thou canst not then be false to any man. William Shakespeare William Shakespeare. 26. That is the essence of the Principles of Natural Justice: