8 May 1978
WONG YET-WAH SUNNY v. TU BROTHERS LTD
- Citation
- WONG YET-WAH SUNNY v. TU BROTHERS LTD
- Court
- District Court
- Case number
- DCCJ8096/1977
The Court held it lacked jurisdiction to hear the balance of salary claim because it was a liquidated sum arising from breach of an express term and therefore within the Labour Tribunal's exclusive jurisdiction; conversely the claim described as one month's salary in lieu of notice was characterised as a claim for unliquidated general damages for wrongful dismissal (not a 'sum of money' under an implied term) and thus within the District Court's jurisdiction; Employment Ordinance provisions invoked by defendant did not apply due to the wage threshold.