Vanuatu Teachers Union v Teaching Service Commission

Court Supreme Court

Case type Judicial Review

Case number 2752 of 2024

Hearing date 17 Dec 2024

Decision date 17 Dec 2024

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Judge(s) Justice Edwin Goldsbrough

Applicant(s) Vanuatu Teachers Union - First Applicant; Norah Naviti Wells and others. - Second Applicant

Defendant(s) Teaching Service Commission - First Defendant; The Republic of Vanuatu - Second Defendant

Counsel Office of the Attorney General

REASONS FOR JUDGMENT

INTERLOCUTORY ORDERS

Having heard Mr. Bal for the Applicants and Mr. Aron for the Defendants and having read the materials filed herein the Court is satisfied and grants the following orders:

1. That the Suspension of the Second Applicants issued by the First Defendant be STAYED pending the determination of the Judicial Review Claim.

2. That the Termination of the Second Applicants issued by the First Defendant be STAYED pending the determination of the Judicial Review Claim.

3. That First Defendant continues to pay Salaries and other entitlements of the Second Applicants until the determination of the Judicial Review Claim.

4. The order is amended to reflect the leave granted to add additional parties as second defendants today.

Dated at Port Vila this 17th day of December 2024
BY THE COURT

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JUDGE