Lundborg

This is an appeal by the Director of the State Department of Professional and Vocational Standards, hereafter Director, from a judgment ordering that a writ of mandate be issued to set aside his order revoking the private investigator’s license of Clarence K. Lundborg, hereafter Lundborg. The Director contends that the superior court erred in ruling that a prior civil judgment against Lundborg was not res judicata as to the revocation and that, in any event, the trial court erred in failing to remand the matter to the administrative agency for reconsideration.

The Bureau of Private Investigators and Adjusters (hereafter Bureau), a division of the Department of Professional and Vocational Standards (hereafter Department), is a statewide administrative agency created by statute (Bus. & *143 Prof. Code, § 7500, et seq.) having no constitutionally conferred adjudicatory powers, and its decision is subject to an independent weighing of the supporting evidence by the trial court pursuant to section 1094.5 of the Code of Civil Procedure (Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Walls, 178 Cal.App.2d 284, 288 [ 2 Cal.Rptr. 847 ] ; Moran v. Board of Medical Examiners, 32 Cal.2d 301, 308 [ 196 P.2d 20…