Just

What it looks like

• Gives people what they are owed, whether that is credit, pay or an apology.
• Matches a consequence to what was actually done, neither harsher nor softer.
• Corrects an unfair outcome once they find it, even when it broke no rule and nobody complained.

Fits when a decision gives people what fairness and relevant principles require

Not when the outcome merely follows a rule whose fairness has not been examined

How to say it

Replace the brackets with what the person actually did.

• Reviewed [pay, grading or disciplinary] records for [number] [staff or students], corrected [number] unfair outcomes, and [changed the policy or process] so they did not recur.

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• [Name] is just in their decisions: when [a dispute or complaint] reached them, they looked past the letter of the rule to the facts and reached an outcome both sides could accept as right.

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• [Name] has a strong sense of what is just and speaks up when a classmate is blamed for something they did not do.

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• The rule said the late fee stood. The clerk read the letter about the flood, tore up the notice, and wrote a note explaining why.

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