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Hong Kong Case Law

Overseas employment contracts
  • 26 Jul 1994

    MATHESON PFC LTD. v. SIMON JANSEN

    Citation
    MATHESON PFC LTD. v. SIMON JANSEN
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACV72/1994

    Schedule 1(a) of the Labour Tribunal Ordinance restricts the Tribunal's jurisdiction to contracts of employment to be performed in Hong Kong and to overseas contracts governed by Cap.78; thus contracts to be performed outside Hong Kong (not falling under Cap.78) are excluded from the Tribunal's exclusive jurisdiction. The appellant's contract, performed in Indonesia, was therefore not within the Labour Tribunal's exclusive jurisdiction and the court action must be restored.