BP Oil NZ Ltd v Northern Distribution Workers Union - [1989] 3 NZLR 580

Industrial law — Dismissal — Unjustified dismissal of employee — Labour Court held that employer had unjustifiably summarily dismissed an employee — Employer appealed on question of law — Whether misconduct by employee which would warrant summary dismissal at common law was necessarily decisive of whether dismissal was unjustifiable under Labour Relations Act — Whether common law position was relevant — Whether there was material before Labour Court to justify its finding — Whether Labour Court had erred in law — Labour Relations Act 1987, s 210.