Principal of Auckland College of Education v Hagg - [1997] 2 NZLR 537

Industrial law — Employment contract — Employment Court — Whether there is a general right of appeal from the Employment Court to the Court of Appeal — Employment Contracts Act 1991, s 135.

Industrial law — Employment contract — Jurisdiction — Whether the Employment Court's equity and good conscience jurisdiction should be exercised in a manner inconsistent with the Employment Contracts Act, any other Act or any applicable collective employment contract — Employment Contracts Act 1991, s 104(3) and Part II.

Industrial law — Employment contract — Unjustified dismissal — Whether allowing a fixed-term employment contract to expire and failing to make a permanent appointment, without observing statutory directions, amounts to an unjustified dismissal — Employment Contracts Act 1991, s 27(1) — State Sector Act 1988, ss 77A, 77G and 77H.

Industrial law — Employment contract — Interpretation — Fixed-term contracts — Whether employment contracts should be interpreted by using any special or different rules of interpretation.