19 Oct 1983
LEE YIH JEN v. CHUNG NEWSPAPERS LTD
- Citation
- LEE YIH JEN v. CHUNG NEWSPAPERS LTD
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCA2465/1983
The court held that claims for fixed, ascertainable sums (salary and return passage) fall within the Labour Tribunal's exclusive jurisdiction as "a claim for a sum of money" and are not justiciable in the High Court, whereas claims for loss of accommodation value and loss of an opportunity to acquire professional reputation are unliquidated and fall outside paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 and are actionable in the High Court; the National Ebauch decision was followed.