Hong Leong Equipment Sdn Bhd v Liew Fook Chuan & Other Appeals

JurisdictionMalaysia
Judgment Date1996
Date1996
CourtCourt of Appeal (Malaysia)
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3 firm's commentaries
  • Unfair Dismissal: From Termination To Industrial Court Award
    • Malaysia
    • Mondaq Malaysia
    • 20 July 2020
    ...of tenure in employment on the same footing as that of 'property right'. In Hong Leong Equipment Sdn. Bhd. v Liew Fook Chuan and Anor [1996] 1 MLJ 481 , Gopal Sri Ram JCA (as he then was) observed "The legislature has willed that the relationship of employer and workman as resting on a mere......
  • Redundancy Or Retrenchment: Is It The End?
    • Malaysia
    • Mondaq Malaysia
    • 23 February 2016
    ...to a security of tenure in their employment. In fact, the Court in the case of Hong Leong Equipment Sdn Bhd v Liew Fook Chuan & Anor [1996] 1 MLJ 481 observed that the employees' security of tenure in employment is akin to a property right under the Federal Constitution which may be for......
  • To (DI) Or Not To (DI), That Is The Question
    • Malaysia
    • Mondaq Malaysia
    • 5 July 2021
    ...when determining whether the employee was justly dismissed (See: Hong Leong Equipment Sdn Bhd v Liew Fook Chuan (and Another Appeal) [1996] 1 MLJ 481); If the Industrial Court finds that a valid DI been held, it will then confine itself only to determining whether or not there was a prima f......
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