25 Feb 2000
LOK MING RESTAURANT v. LAU KWAI CHONG AND ANOTHER
- Citation
- LOK MING RESTAURANT v. LAU KWAI CHONG AND ANOTHER
- Court
- Court of First Instance
- Case number
- HCME7/1999
Section 14 governs conciliation by an authorised officer and does not prevent an adjudication officer, who is a judicial officer, from approving a voluntary, lawful, capacity-valid and fair settlement and making it an award; the adjudication officer did not act improperly or coerce the employer; representation by a non-lawyer authorised representative may be permitted with the Board's leave and s22 is not to be read as an exhaustive exclusion.