Potter v Melbourne & Metropolitan Tramways Board [1957] HCA 43; (1957) 98 CLR 337 (2 July 1957)

HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA

POTTER v. MELBOURNE AND METROPOLITAN TRAMWAYS BOARD [1957] HCA 43; (1957) 98 CLR 337

Certiorari

High Court of Australia
Dixon C.J.(1), Webb( ), Kitto( ) and Taylor( ) JJ.

CATCHWORDS

Certiorari - Duty of appeal board to hear and determine appeals by officers etc. of tramways board against "reductions in rank, grade or pay or other punishments inflicted" by the tramways board - Reduction in grade in ordinary course of administration independently of discipline - Whether within jurisdiction of appeal board - Whether in province of appeal board to determine conclusively that reduction amounted to punishment - Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Act 1928 (No. 3732) (Vict.), s. 17 (5) - Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Act 1930 (No. 3902) (Vict.), s. 2 - Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways (Appeal Board) Act 1946 (No. 5206) (Vict.), s. 2.

HEARING

Melbourne, 1957, June 10, 11;
Sydney, 1957, July 2. 2:7:1957

DECISION

R. v. Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Appeal Board; Ex parte Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board (1957) VR 651
Reg. v. Commissioners for Special Purposes of the Income Tax (1888) 21 QBD 313
Ex parte Silk; Re Chapman Engine Distributors Pty. Ltd. (1939) 39 SR (NSW) 42 56 WN 13
Parisienne Basket Shoes Pty. Ltd. v. Whyte [1938] HCA 7; (1938) 59 CLR 369