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SOURCE: ANTIGUA OBSERVER-<\/strong> The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has ruled that the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court of Appeal lacked jurisdiction to overturn a $25,000 exemplary damages award to a former Transport Board manager who was unfairly dismissed in 2014, in a judgment delivered yesterday.<\/p>

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Anderson Carty, who was employed at the Antigua and Barbuda Transport Board (ABTB) for eight years until October 2014, successfully challenged his dismissal through the courts after being terminated while on approved vacation leave. The Privy Council\u2019s decision reinstates both the exemplary damages and a separate $2,500 award for costs originally made by the Industrial Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carty had been an employee of  the ABTB since April 2006, holding several managerial positions, including Human Resources and Training Manager before becoming Operations Manager under a three-year contract set to expire in April 2015.<\/p>

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The circumstances surrounding Carty\u2019s dismissal proved particularly damaging to the Transport Board\u2019s case. While Carty was on approved vacation leave in September and October 2014, the Transport Board issued a memorandum to staff about restructuring due to financial circumstances, but Carty did not receive the notice.<\/p>

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On 3rd October 2014, while still on leave, a newspaper article was published stating that the Transport Board had decided to dismiss several managers including Carty. When he returned to work on 15th October 2014, he received a letter which informed him he was dismissed with immediate effect due to redundancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Industrial Court found several aggravating factors in the dismissal process, noting that Carty \u201cwas prevented from collecting his personal items from the employer\u2019s premises and had to resort to making a complaint to the Police Commissioner\u201d.<\/p>

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Additionally, although Carty had a contractual arrangement to repay a government loan through monthly installments of $343.33, \u201cthe Employer unreasonably deducted the full outstanding balance of $16,823.37 from his final payment without consulting with him\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In August 2020, the Industrial Court ruled that this was not a genuine case of redundancy and that Carty had been unfairly dismissed. The court awarded exemplary damages of $25,000, concluding that \u201cthe treatment meted out to Mr Carty was harsh and oppressive\u201d.<\/p>

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The Industrial Court identified several grounds for exemplary damages, including that Carty \u201cwas virtually dismissed while he was on approved vacation leave\u201d, that \u201cnotice of his imminent dismissal was repeatedly published in the media before he received any official notice\u201d, and that \u201cthere was a blatant disregard for the principles and practices of good industrial relations\u201d.<\/p>

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The Transport Board appealed to the Court of Appeal, which set aside both the exemplary damages award and the costs order. The Court of Appeal, led by Justice Thom, applied common law principles from the English case Rookes v Barnard, arguing that exemplary damages required conduct that was \u201coppressive, arbitrary or unconstitutional\u201d by governmental actors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, in its judgment delivered by Lord Lloyd-Jones, the Privy Council ruled that the Court of Appeal had fundamentally erred in both its legal reasoning and its jurisdiction to hear the appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe legislature has taken the view that the statutory test (\u2018harsh and oppressive or not in accordance with the principles of good industrial relations practice\u2019) justifies an award of exemplary damages,\u201d the Privy Council stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crucially, the Privy Council found that the Court of Appeal lacked jurisdiction to hear the appeal at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under section 10(6) of the Industrial Court Act, \u201cthe opinion of the Industrial Court as to whether an employee has been dismissed in circumstances that are harsh and oppressive or not in accordance with the principles of good industrial relations practice\u201d cannot be \u201cchallenged, appealed against, reviewed, quashed or called in question in any court on any account whatever\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judgment emphasized that this provision \u201caccords special status to the decision of the Industrial Court\u201d and reflects that \u201cappeals will not be allowed against the Industrial Court\u2019s opinion in what is manifestly a highly specialised area of industrial relations\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Privy Council rejected the Court of Appeal\u2019s reliance on common law principles, noting that \u201cit is not possible to limit the scope of statutory powers to award exemplary damages by reference to the scope of the common law power to award exemplary damages.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judgment highlighted that the Industrial Court Act emphasizes \u201ca special feature of its jurisdiction,\u201d requiring the court to make orders it considers \u201cfair and just\u201d and to \u201cact in accordance with equity, good conscience and the substantial merits of the case\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is most unfortunate that section 10(6) was not drawn to the attention of the Court of Appeal and is not referred to at any point in the judgment,\u201d the Privy Council observed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Board concluded: \u201cFor these reasons the Board will humbly advise His Majesty that the appeal should be allowed,\u201d reinstating both the $25,000 exemplary damages award and the $2,500 costs order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ABTB is required to meet the cost for Carty\u2019s appeal to the country\u2019s final appellate court.<\/p>\n

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