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{\title STATE V TRANSPORT CONTROL BOARD, MAIKALI NAIKAWAKAWAVESI [23 DEC 92]}{\author JOHN E. BYRNE}
{\doccomm  IN THE HIGH COURT OF FIJI;  ( AT SUVA );  JUDICIAL REVIEW; ACTION NO. 44 OF 1991;   BETWEEN :     STATE v. ARBITRATION TRIBUNAL;   EX PARTE: MAIKALI NAIKAWAKAWAVESI;  Mr. H.M. Patel      :  For the Applicants; Mr. G.P. Lala       :  For the
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\par (AT SUVA)
\par JUDICIAL REVIEW
\par }{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 
\par ACTION NO. 44 OF 1991
\par 
\par BETWEEN:
\par 
\par }{\b\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang1036\langfe5129\langnp1036\insrsid6495163\charrsid12136120 STATE}{\b\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang1036\langfe5129\langnp1036\insrsid6436248\charrsid12136120 
\par }{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang1036\langfe5129\langnp1036\insrsid6436248\charrsid12136120 
\par }{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang1036\langfe5129\langnp1036\insrsid6495163\charrsid12136120 v.}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang1036\langfe5129\langnp1036\insrsid6436248\charrsid12136120 
\par 
\par }{\b\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang1036\langfe5129\langnp1036\insrsid6495163\charrsid12136120 ARBITRATION TRIBUNAL
\par }{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang1036\langfe5129\langnp1036\insrsid6495163\charrsid12136120 
\par EX-PARTE: }{\b\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang1036\langfe5129\langnp1036\insrsid6495163\charrsid12136120 MAIKALI NAIKAWAKAWAVESI}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang1036\langfe5129\langnp1036\insrsid6495163\charrsid12136120 
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\hyphpar0\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid6436248 {\f0\ul\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang1036\langfe5129\langnp1036\insrsid6495163\charrsid12136120 
\par }{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 Mr. H.M. Patel: For the Applicants
\par Mr. G.P. Lala: For the Respondents
\par 
\par Dates of Hearing: 10th, 15th January 1992
\par Date of Preliminary}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6436248  }{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 Ruling: 23rd December 1992
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\par This is an application for leave to judicially review an Award of the Permanent Arbitrator sitting as the Arbitration Tribunal on the 18th of November 1991.}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6436248  }{
\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 The application for 
leave is opposed and a preliminary point has been taken by the Respondents that this Court has no jurisdiction to grant judicial review of an Award made by the Arbitration Tribunal.
\par 
\par For the purposes of this ruling I do not intend to go into any detail concerning the facts of the matter.}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6436248  }{
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Suffice it to say that on the 29th of January, 1986 the Second-named Applicant was suspended by his employer, the Second-named Respondent when he was working as a Teller at the Nausori Branch of the National Bank of Fiji.
\par 
\par The Applicants disputed the suspension of the Second-named Applicant and consequently, with the agreement of the parties, on the 30th of August, 1991 the Acting Permanent Secretary for Employment and Industrial Relations referred the dispute between the A
pplicants and the Second-named Respondent to the Permanent Arbitration Tribunal.
\par 
\par The terms of reference to the Tribunal were:
\par 
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\b\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 To decide whether or not the Bank should reinstate Mr Maikali Naikawakawavesi who was suspended by the employer for alleged forg
ery for which he was charged and subsequently discharged by the Magistrate's Court Nausori on an application by the prosecution."
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\par }{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 The Respondents argue on the question of jurisdiction of this Court that an application for judicial review is not and should
 not be extended to a pure employment situation.}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6436248  }{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 
They rely on a number of English cases of which it will be sufficient for me to mention only two, namely }{\f0\ul\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 R. v. B.B.C. Ex-parte: Lavelle}{
\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248  (1983) 1 WLR 23 and }{\f0\ul\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 R. v. Criminal Injuries Compensation Board Ex-parte:}{
\f0\ul\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid12136120  }{\f0\ul\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 Lain}{
\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248  (1967) 2 QB 864 and particularly in that case some remarks of Lord Parker C.J. at page 882.
\par 
\par In }{\f0\ul\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 Lain's}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 
 case the Court of Appeal had before it an application for an order of Certiorari to quash a decision of the English Criminal Injuries Compensation Board.
\par 
\par The Board contended inter-alia that Certiorari did not lie since the Board was not a body of persons amenable to the supervisory jurisdiction of the Court in that it did not have legal authority in the sense of statutory authority, nor did it have}{
\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6436248  }{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 
authority to determine questions affecting the rights of subjects in that a determination by it gave rise to no enforceable rights by a person affected by a decision of the Board.
\par 
\par The Court of Appeal dismissed the motion holding that the Board was amenab
le to the Writ of Certiorari in that it was body of persons of a public, as opposed to a purely private or domestic character having power to determine matters affecting subjects and a duty to act judicially.
\par 
\par In a passage at p.882 on which the Respondents based their preliminary objections in this case Lord Parker C.J. said this:
\par 
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\b\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 The position as I see it is that the exact limits of the ancient remedy by way of certiorari have never been and ought not to be specifically defined.}{
\b\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6436248  }{\b\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 They have varied from time to time being extended to meet changing conditions.}{
\b\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6436248  }{\b\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 At one time the writ only went to an inferior court.}{
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\b\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6436248  }{\b\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 Later again it extended to cases where there was no lis in the str
ict sense of the word but where immediate or subsequent rights of a citizen were affected.}{\b\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6436248  }{\b\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 
The only constant limits throughout were that it was performing a public duty.}{\b\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6436248  }{\b\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 
Private or domestic tribunals have always been outside the scope of certiorari since their authority is derived solely from contract, that is, from the agreement of the parties concerned."
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\par }{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 In the second case on which the Respondents rely the Applicant, Lavelle sought judicial review of a decision taken by the B.B.C. dismissing her and the 
decision to uphold that dismissal made by the Managing Director of B.B.C. Radio.
\par 
\par The B.B.C. denied the jurisdiction of the High Court in England to entertain the Applicant's application for judicial review.}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6436248  }{
\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 It contended that the procedure under which the 
applicant had been dismissed was purely domestic and if it resulted in a wrongful dismissal, the remedy was the common law remedy of damages.
\par 
\par Woolf J., as he then was, upheld the B.B.C.'s contention and at page 30 of his judgment when discussing the circumstances in which the prerogative remedies of Mandamus, prohibition or Certiorari are available said this:
\par 
\par }\pard \ql \li720\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx-720\tx0\tx720\hyphpar0\faauto\rin0\lin720\itap0\pararsid10829560 {\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 "}{
\b\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 Those remedies were not previously available to enforce private rights but were, what could be described as public law remedies.}{
\b\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6436248  }{\b\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 They were not appr
opriate, and in my view remain inappropriate remedies, for enforcing performance of ordinary obligations owed by a master to his servant.}{\b\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6436248  }{
\b\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 An application for Judicial Review has not and should not be extended to a pure employment situation.}{
\b\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6436248  }{\b\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 Nor does it, in 
my view, make any difference that what is sought to be attacked is a decision of a domestic tribunal such as the series of disciplinary tribunals provided for by the B.B.C."
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx-720\hyphpar0\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid6436248 {\b\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 
\par }{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 The Respondents submit that those observations of Woolf J. received the support of Denning L.J. in }{
\f0\ul\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 Lee v. Showmen's Guild of Great Britain}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 
 (1952) 2 QB 329, at p.346 who said that while remedy by way of declaration and injunction could be available in respect of domestic tribunals, the remedy by certiorari did not lie in respect of domestic tribunals.
\par 
\par In answer to these submissions the Applicants rely on three local cases:
\par 
\par }\pard \ql \fi-720\li1440\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx-720\hyphpar0\faauto\rin0\lin1440\itap0\pararsid10829560 {\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 (1)\tab }{
\f0\ul\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 Satish Chandra v. The Arbitration Tribunal of Fiji}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid10829560  }{
\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 F.C.A. No. 49 of 1986.
\par 
\par (2)\tab }{\f0\ul\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 Suva City Council Staff Association v. Suva City}{\f0\ul\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid10829560  }{
\f0\ul\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 Council}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 , Judicial Review No. 3 of 1986 a decision of}{
\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6436248  }{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 my own.}{\f0\ul\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid10829560 

\par }{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 
\par (3)\tab }{\f0\ul\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 Air Pacific Limited v. Air Pacific Employees}{\f0\ul\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid10829560  }{
\f0\ul\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 Association and Veer Satish Singh}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid10829560 , F.C.A. Civil }{
\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 Appeal No. 62 of 1987; Judicial Review No. 2 of}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6436248  }{
\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 1986.}{\f0\ul\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid10829560 
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx-720\hyphpar0\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid6436248 {\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 
\par In }{\f0\ul\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 Satish Chandra's}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248  case the Court of Appeal quoted with approval some rema
rks of Lord Diplock in }{\f0\ul\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 C.C.S.U. v. Minister for the Civil Service}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 
 (1984) 3 ALL E.R. 935 at p.949.}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6436248  }{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 
There Lord Diplock stated that in contrast with the decision of arbitrators who derive their authority from private contract between the parties, the decision
s of any decision-maker "empowered by public law" or "having legal authority" is susceptible of review.
\par 
\par In this case Section 6(1) of the Trade Disputes Act reads as follows:
\par 
\par }\pard \ql \li720\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx-720\tx0\tx720\hyphpar0\faauto\rin0\lin720\itap0\pararsid10829560 {\b\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 
"Where the Permanent Secretary or any person appointed by him or by the Minister
 is unable to effect a settlement the Permanent Secretary shall report the trade dispute to the Minister who may, subject as hereinafter provided, if he thinks fit, and if both parties consent, and agree in writing to accept the award of the Tribunal, aut
horise the Permanent Secretary to refer such trade dispute to a Tribunal for settlement."
\par }\pard \ql \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx-720\hyphpar0\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid6436248 {\b\i\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 
\par }{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 It will thus be seen that the situation in Fiji is different from that with which Woolf J. had to deal in }{
\f0\ul\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 Lavelle's}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248  case.}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6436248 
 }{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 In Fiji any matter concerning facts similar 
to those of the present case may be referred to the Permanent Arbitrator by the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations if both parties consent and agree in writing to accept the Award of the Tribunal.
\par 
\par In this case it is not in dispute that the parties had agreed to refer the dispute to the Permanent Arbitrator.
\par 
\par I am unaware of any case in which it has been held that Section 6(3) of the Trade Disputes Act which states that an Award of the Tribunal shall be binding on the parties to the dispute ne
gates the jurisdiction of this Court to judicially review any Award of the Tribunal if cause can be shown.
\par 
\par In Fiji in contrast to the position in England in the cases mentioned by the Respondents the Arbitration Tribunal is a public Tribunal and not either a disciplinary committee as in the case of }{
\f0\ul\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 Lee v. Showmen's Guild of Great Britain}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 
 where the tribunal was the Area Committee of a trade union or as in }{\f0\ul\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 Lavelle's}{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 
 case the Management of the B.B.C. whose decision was confirmed by the Managing Director.
\par 
\par For these reasons I hold that Judicial Review is available in Fiji to contest an Award of the Arbitration Tribunal and that consequently the decision in question here can be the subject of Judicial Review.
\par 
\par I have received full written submissions and copies of certain decisions not available in the library of this Court from the solicitors for the Respondents to whom I am grateful.
\par 
\par To a large extent the submissions of the Applicants deal only with the preliminary objections and I shall therefore now fix a date for the delivery of submissions by the Applicants in Reply to those of the Respondents on the substantive issue.}{
\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6436248  }{\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid6436248 Costs will be in the cause.
\par 
\par }\pard \qc \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx-720\hyphpar0\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid10829560 {\b\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid10829560 JOHN E. BYRNE
\par }{\b\f0\ul\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid10829560 J U D G E
\par }\pard \qr \li0\ri0\nowidctlpar\tx-720\hyphpar0\faauto\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid10829560 {\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid10829560\charrsid10829560 HBJ0044D.91S}{
\f0\expnd0\expndtw-3\lang2057\langfe5129\langnp2057\insrsid6495163\charrsid10829560 
\par }}