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CONSISTENCY AND FAIRNESS IN PUBLIC LAW ADMINISTRATION IN NIGERIA: RATIONALISING THE CONCEPT OF LEGITIMATE EXPECTATION THROUGH THE LENS OF OTHER CLIMES

Government agencies carry out public functions by exercising discretionary powers to formulate and implement policies, manage and regulate social and economic life.However, administrative rules cannot with certainty, prescribe outcomes for envisaged circumstances.The doctrine of legitimate expectation operates so that any government agency which adopts a policy should be required to follow and apply the policy.It advocates consistency and fairness in government actions, protected by external administrative mechanisms, the courts and tribunals, and through rules of internalisation in administra…