Ridge v Baldwin [1964] AC 40 was a UK labour law case heard by the House of Lords.

[2] The Brighton police authority dismissed its Chief Constable (Charles Ridge) without offering him an opportunity to defend his actions.

The Chief Constable appealed, arguing that the Brighton Watch Committee (headed by George Baldwin) had acted unlawfully (ultra vires) in terminating his appointment in 1958 following criminal proceedings against him.

[3] The House of Lords held that Baldwin's committee had violated the doctrine of natural justice, overturning the principle outlined by the Donoughmore Committee thirty years before that the doctrine of natural justice could not be applied to administrative decisions.

"Natural justice" is a legal doctrine which requires an absence of bias (nemo iudex in causa sua) and the right to a fair hearing (audi alteram partem).