Employment matters: can there be a bias-free dispute?

By John Wilson
Updated April 24 2018 - 10:02pm, first published November 3 2017 - 7:18pm

The rule against bias has a storied history. Australian academic Simon Young recently cited the 800-year-old Magna Carta as providing a basis for the principle, which he described as having "a uniquely long pedigree in Western legal thinking". The rule is simultaneously simple and plagued by complexity. At its essence, a decision-maker must bring a fair and open mind to any decision.

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