QFC 004/2018
Abdulla Jassim Al Tamimi v Qatar Financial Centre Authority, Qatar Finance and Business Academy LLC and Abdulla Jassim Al Tamimi v Employment Standards Office
Type
Case
Court
Qatar Financial Centre - Qatar Financial Centre Appellate Division
Jurisdiction
Qatar Financial Centre
Taxonomy
Appeals, General Employment & Labour Law, Jurisdiction, General Civil Procedure & Administration of Justice, Judiciary
Copyright
LexisNexis
Decision date
20 Nov 2018
Hearing/Judgment date
18 November 2018
Panel
Lord Phillips, President Justice Hassan Al Sayed, Justice Sir William Blair
Catchwords
Appellate Division – Permission to Appeal – Employment Standards Office (Independence of) – Jurisdiction – Procedure – QFBA – QFCA – QFC Employment Regulations – QFC Law – Res Judicata – Time Limits
18 November 2018
Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers President of the Court).
Order
1. The Application for Permission to Appeal against the judgment of the Court is dismissed.
2. The Application for Permission to Appeal against the decision of the Tribunal is allowed, but the appeal is dismissed.
Judgment
Introduction
1. We have heard together two applications for permission to appeal. The first relates to the judgment of the First Instance Circuit dated 13 May 2018. The second to the decision of the Regulatory Tribunal dated 8 July 2018. In each case the Applicant was refused a hearing of the merits of his claim. The Court acceded to a challenge to its jurisdiction. The Tribunal ruled that the Applicant's claim was out of time.