Stewart v Johannesburg Liquor Licensing Court [1914] ZAWLD 36 (26 November 1914)

Intoancating liquors. - Renewa.l of licence refused. -Fresh
evidence.-Power to 1·ehear by licensing court.-Jurisdiction.
-Ordinance 32 of l902.-Proclamation 14 of 1902, secs. 18
and 27.

Where a renewal of a licence is refused after due hearing, a licensing court is functus officio and has no power to re-hear an application for renewal in the absence of perjury or fraud. Held further, that in those circumstances a superior court had no jurisdiction to order a re-hearing.
Quaere, whether a licensing court is an inferior court within the meaning of secs. 18 and 27 of Proclamation 14 of 1902.