sentences:  A majority Court found that Nicholson was entitled to a common law duty of fairness and so should have been able to make submissions to the employer and should have been notified orally or in writing.This paralleled the UK House of Lords decision in "Ridge v Baldwin", which was quoted with approval by Laskin C.J.Laskin noted the difficulty in classifying decisions as "quasi-judicial" or administrative, which often decided the outcome of cases