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AI summary
The Labour Appeal Court considered an appeal about a disciplinary hearing in which a plea bargain agreement led to a guilty plea and a proposed lenient sanction. The court held that the dismissal was substantively fair, but that the process was procedurally unfair, and it substituted compensation for reinstatement. It also set out brief guidelines for what should happen if a chairperson is not inclined to endorse a proposed lenient sanction.
This appears to concern labour disciplinary procedure and plea bargain agreements in a police service context.
Evidence from source
The main issue for determination in this appeal is whether the chairperson of the disciplinary hearing may reject a lenient sanction pursuant to the plea-bargain agreement.
Supports: plain_summary sentence 1
I, therefore, propose the following brief guidelines for the procedure to be followed when the chairperson of a disciplinary enquiry has reservations about the lenient sanction proposed in a plea bargain agreement.
Supports: plain_summary sentence 3