Parker LJ said that even if the Agricultural Land Tribunal had misconstrued a statute that did not mean that they had exceeded their jurisdiction: ‘they clearly had jurisdiction to decide whether to give or withhold consent, and if they misconstrued the statute or acted on no evidence, they merely erred in law.’ If affidavits ‘showed that they must have misconstrued the statute, that is not a question of want of jurisdiction.’
Parker LJ, Lord Evershed MR and Sellers LJ
[1958] 1 WLR 434
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Anisminic Ltd v Foreign Compensation Commission HL 17-Dec-1968
All Public Law Challenges are For a Nullity
The plaintiffs had owned mining property in Egypt. Their interests were damaged and or sequestrated and they sought compensation from the Respondent Commission. The plaintiffs brought an action for the declaration rejecting their claims was a . .
Cited – Anisminic Ltd v Foreign Compensation Commission HL 17-Dec-1968
All Public Law Challenges are For a Nullity
The plaintiffs had owned mining property in Egypt. Their interests were damaged and or sequestrated and they sought compensation from the Respondent Commission. The plaintiffs brought an action for the declaration rejecting their claims was a . .
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Updated: 20 September 2021; Ref: scu.653278