7 Jan 1987
PETER JOSEPH WYATT AND ANOTHER v. THE MARINE COURT
- Citation
- PETER JOSEPH WYATT AND ANOTHER v. THE MARINE COURT
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCMP1317/1986
The High Court held that the Marine Court had made serious adverse findings in specified passages that amounted to charges of concerted misconduct and that those passages were made without notice to the experts and so breached the rules of natural justice; however, the Court declined to quash parts of the published Report by certiorari (citing severability, practical and jurisdictional difficulties and the fact the Report had been sent to the Governor) and declined to grant a bare declaration because the applicants had not shown exceptional circumstances that would justify that unusual remedy…