British League Club v Pretoria Liquor Licensing Court [1915] ZATPD 51 (1 July 1915)

Liquor laws.- Licensing court.- Member being holder of bond upon licensed premises.-Effect.-*Ord. 32 of 1902, sec. H (6) osts. Practice.-Costs against licensing court.

A person who held a mortgage bond upon licensed premises was appointed and sat as a member of a Licensing Court which dealt with applications for licences. Held, in an application by a club which had been refused a licence, that by virtue of sec. 11 (6) of Ord. 32 of 1902, such person was disqualified as 'a. member, and that the fact of his having sat as such invalidated the proceedings, of the Court, Held, further, that th,e Licensing Court should pay the costs of the -application. Jooste v. Witwatersrand Licensing Court (1909, T.S. 26),
followed.