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High Court dismisses multiple actions brought by a former civil servant challenging the constitutionality of certain statutory provisions and a civil service circular related to deductions from his pension and salary, as well as the treatment of proprietary company directors for social insurance purposes, on the grounds that the plaintiff lacked standing to bring the case regarding proprietary directors and that the issues raised had been previously determined by administrative bodies and the courts, rendering the claims an abuse of process and disclosing no reasonable cause of action; however, the court refused to dismiss the plaintiff's claim for alleged detriment suffered due to protected disclosures made between April and November 2019, directing the plaintiff to deliver a new Statement of Claim confined to this tort claim.
Protected Disclosures Act 2014 - Unfair Dismissals Act 1977 - Payment of Wages Act 1991 - Civil Service Regulation Act 1956 - Financial Service and Pensions Ombudsman Act 2017 - proprietary company directors - social insurance - constitutional rights - pension lump sum - salary deductions - DPER Circular No. 07/2018 - abuse of process - res judicata (a matter that has been adjudicated by a competent court and therefore may not be pursued further by the same parties) - locus standi (the right to bring an action or to be heard in a given forum) - Isaac Wunder Order (restraining order against vexatious litigants).
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