Hammond v Hutt Valley and Bays Metropolitan Milk Board - [1958] NZLR 720

Administrative law — Appeal from Milk Authority to Magistrates' Court — Refusal to grant licence — Hearing de novo to determine merits — Magistrate entitled to substitute his opinion for that of Milk Authority — Milk Act 1944 s. 71.

Practice — Mandamus — Inferior Tribunal declining jurisdiction — Ground whereon decision based to be examined — Inferior Tribunal misdirecting itself in formulation of questions to be considered — Declining of jurisdiction though visible signs of exercise of jurisdiction.