WILLIAMS V. THE DEPUTY CROWN SOLICITOR AND THE PUBLIC SERVICE INSPECTOR
High Court of Australia
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF AUSTRALIA
THE DEPULY CROWN SOL OR _ AN.
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REASONS FOR JUDGMENT
Oral
Judgment delivered at.
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ALFRED FRANCIS JAMES WILLIAMS
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THE DEPULY CROWN SOLICITOR and
THY PUBLIC SERVICH INSPECTOR
ORDER
Application dismissed.
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SOLICITOR and
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ALFRED FRANCIS. JAMES WILLIAMS
The applicant moves the court for an order that
a writ of certiorari issue to remove into this court the
decision made on behalf of the Public Service Board of the
Commonwealth to retire him from the Public Service on the
ground of invalidity.
We have heard the applicant's submissions on
the assumption that this court can grant certiorari and that
a decision of the Public Service Board or of the person who
made the decision to retire the applicant are of a kind
which are capable of being the subject of certiorari.
The court does not propose to examine the
validity of these assumptions in this case, as it is clearly
of opinion that even if they were valid, no ground has been
shown by the applicant for the grant of such a writ.
We have had an opportunity of considering all
the documents which have been put before us, and of considering
the applicant's argument in support of his application. There
is no need, however, in our opinion, to recite the facts and
circumstances of the applicant's employment, service and
retirement so far as they appear in the papers before us. I%
suffices, in our opinion, to say that none of the three grounds
wnich the applicant puts forward as indicative of an excess of
jurisdiction or of error on the face of the proceedings is valid.
Upon the material before the court there was,
in our opinion, no irregularity or breach of the statutory
provisions regulating the applicant's employment in the Public
Service or in the decision to retire him from that service.
The application for writ of certiorari must
therefore be dismissed.