29 May 1992
CHAN SAU MUI AND OTHERS v. DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION
- Citation
- CHAN SAU MUI AND OTHERS v. DIRECTOR OF IMMIGRATION
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACV70/1992
The Court held that the disputed question of family support was not an objective fact independently ascertainable or plainly or unassailably wrong; therefore the Deputy Director's factual assessment was not amenable to judicial review on the material error of fact principle in this case. Consequently the judge was right to refuse discovery and to refuse admission of further evidence, but wrong to order cross-examination of the Deputy Director. The Director's appeal is allowed and the applicants' appeal dismissed; courts must not convert judicial review into an appellate re-evaluation of admin…