: The High Court today allowed a judicial review application filed by the United States government to annul an RM66,000 award given by the Industrial Court to a former security guard at the US Embassy here for wrongful dismissal.
Lawyers Lim Heng Seng and Summer Chong Yue Han represented the US government, while Subramaniam was represented by lawyer Ragunath Kesavan and senior federal counsel Liew Horng Bin represented the Attorney General as amicus curiae or friend of the court. The US government also sought a court order that Subramaniam’s dismissal for internal disciplinary misconduct was within the embassy, saying that the country and its embassy are protected by immunity from the jurisdiction of the Industrial Court concerning claims under Section 20 of the Industrial Relations Act 1967.
On April 27 last year, the Industrial Court ordered the US Embassy to pay RM66,000 to Subramaniam after finding that he was unlawfully dismissed.