Adjudication by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA), a statutory regulator, of tariff adjustment application by Eskom, a licensee with a license, inter alia, to distribute as principal supplier electricity in South Africa : nature of adjudication process and decision: administrative action: subject to review in terms of the Promotion of Access to Justice Act 3 of 2000: not, as suggested by NERSA and Eskom, immune from judicial scrutiny because it involved application of policy.
Price adjustment methodology discussed, interpreted and applied: whether decision by NERSA rational and whether adjudication process and decision unfair.
Discussion of deference to specialised administrative body.
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