If a tribunal has turned its mind to the right question and there is any evidence on the record upon which a tribunal could properly have reached a factual conclusion, then there has been
no reviewable error of law or jurisdiction.
Thus under the Railway Act privative clauses, comparable in every respect to those currently in the ACT, where the Board is acting without its jurisdiction and has not committed
a reviewable error of law interpreting its statute, any errors of fact which it may commit are not reviewable.
Not exact matches
The classic case is that
of Anisminic v Foreign Compensation Commission in which the House
of Lords made it plain that
errors of process and substantive
errors that failed to match administrative
law standards were
reviewable notwithstanding a privative clause in the statute that conferred the decision - making power under challenge.
He did not misdirect himself on the applicable
law or commit a
reviewable error of fact.
Accordingly, on an appeal from a judicial decision, the interpretation
of a non-standard form contract is normally
reviewable only for palpable and overriding
error unless there is an extricable question
of law.
The trial judge did not commit a
reviewable error of fact or
law, and he did not exercise his discretion unreasonably.