SE Asia Fire Bricks v Non-Metallic Mineral Products Manufacturing E... [1981] AC 363 (PC)

In Malaysia, an industrial court ruled that Defendant had to take back employees, Plaintiff, after a strike, and statute provided that an award of the industrial court was “final” and “no award shall be challenged, appealed against, reviewed, quashed, or called into question in any court of law”.

PC allowed the ouster clause to be effective, but maintaining the distinction between jurisdictional and non-jurisdictional errors of law, depending on whether the mistake was so “fundamental” as to place the decision outside of the court’s jurisdiction.

This was not the case here.