Johnson, G. v. Lansdale Boro, Aplts.

OPINION

JUSTICE BAER

We granted allowance of appeal to determine whether a trial court’s standard of review of an adjudication of a municipal civil service commission where no new evidence is presented on appeal is governed by the Borough Code, which has been interpreted as providing for de novo review, or by the Local Agency Law, which provides for a limited appellate review under those circumstances. For the reasons set forth herein, we hold that when the two statutes are read in pari materia, it becomes clear that a limited appellate standard of review applies. Accordingly, we respectfully…