{"id":257118,"date":"2003-02-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-09T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/wakil-singh-vs-presiding-officer-labour-court-on-10-february-2003"},"modified":"2016-01-23T12:22:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T06:52:26","slug":"wakil-singh-vs-presiding-officer-labour-court-on-10-february-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/wakil-singh-vs-presiding-officer-labour-court-on-10-february-2003","title":{"rendered":"Wakil Singh vs Presiding Officer, Labour Court &#8230; on 10 February, 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Jharkhand High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Wakil Singh vs Presiding Officer, Labour Court &#8230; on 10 February, 2003<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 2003 (2) JCR 524 Jhr<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: M Eqbal<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: M Eqbal<\/div>\n<p id=\"p_1\">ORDER<\/p>\n<p>M.Y. Eqbal, J.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1\"> 1. Heard the parties.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_2\"> 2. This writ petition is directed against the order dated 19.3.2002 passed by Presiding Officer, Labour Court, Jamshedpur whereby he has allowed the application filed by the respondent company and decided to take up some of the issues as a preliminary issue before deciding other issues. The proceeding before the Labour Court arose out of a reference made by the appropriate Government and the term of reference was as to whether the petitioner -the workman of MHS Department IISCO Ltd. is a workman under <a href=\"\/doc\/1418464\/\" id=\"a_1\">Section 2(s)<\/a> of the I.D. Act, 1947 and whether the retirement is justified. The Labour Court entertained the application filed by the respondent and finally ordered that the matter shall be heard only as preliminary issue (objection raised by the management). In my opinion the Labour Court is not at all justified in proceeding with piecemeal hearing of the case. It would be proper for the Labour Court to decide all the issues including the preliminary issues raised by the respondent.\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"p_3\">  3. For the aforesaid reason this writ application is allowed and the impugned order is modified by directing the Labour Court to take up all the issues and decide the same by passing reasoned judgment as expeditiously as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jharkhand High Court Wakil Singh vs Presiding Officer, Labour Court &#8230; on 10 February, 2003 Equivalent citations: 2003 (2) JCR 524 Jhr Author: M Eqbal Bench: M Eqbal ORDER M.Y. Eqbal, J. 1. Heard the parties. 2. This writ petition is directed against the order dated 19.3.2002 passed by Presiding Officer, Labour Court, Jamshedpur whereby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-jharkhand-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wakil Singh vs Presiding Officer, Labour Court ... on 10 February, 2003 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/wakil-singh-vs-presiding-officer-labour-court-on-10-february-2003\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wakil Singh vs Presiding Officer, Labour Court ... on 10 February, 2003 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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