13 Jul 2005
HKSAR v. MICHAEL REID SCOTT
- Citation
- HKSAR v. MICHAEL REID SCOTT
- Court
- Court of Final Appeal
- Case number
- FACV16/2004
The Court held that the operative provisions (ss.4-6 Cap.574 and ss.4-11 Cap.580) validly reduced pay within the limits of Basic Law art.100 because art.100 only forbids reductions below the level prevailing immediately before 1 July 1997; ss.10 and s.15 are also valid because they merely reflected and provided contractual authorization for the specific legislative adjustments and did not introduce a novel contractual exposure to unilateral executive reductions that would render conditions less favourable; art.103 was not breached by the decision not to conduct a Pay Trend Survey because the…
- Basic law article 100
- Basic law article 103
- Public officers pay adjustment ordinances (cap.574, cap.580)
- Judicial review
- Legislative power to alter contracts
- Pay trend survey