Midland Motorways Services Limited v Baird - [1954] NZLR 955

Administrative Law — Transport — Transport Licensing Authority — Application by Company for Passenger-service Licence — During Hearing of Evidence thereon, Railways Department applying to amend Time-table of Its Service — Licensing Authority adjourning Hearing of Evidence relating to Latter Application sine die — Decision given against Company's Application — Licensing Authority changing to Different Statutory Procedure without notifying Company, and granting Department's Application — Defect of Jurisdiction in granting Amendment — Company given no Reasonable Opportunity of being heard — Properly constituted Proceedings, as adjourned sine die, still in Existence — Decision on Railways Department's Application Nugatory — Certiorari, to quash Such Decision, notwithstanding Company's Right of Appeal against Decision — Transport Act, 1949, ss 101 (3), 114 (4), 144.