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Corporation of the City of Enfield v Development Assessment Commission (Judicial Review)

[2000] HCA 5
JurisdictionAustralia
CourtHigh Court of Australia
Year2000
StatusBinding authority

Key Principle

Where the existence of a 'jurisdictional fact' conditions the lawful exercise of an administrative power, it is for the reviewing court to determine for itself whether that fact exists, and the court is not confined to the limited deference of Wednesbury review for that question.

Area of Law

public-law

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