https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=175142 Where a jurisdictional objection turns on disputed and complex facts, the Industrial Tribunal should ordinarily decide the preliminary issue first, leaving any challenge to later proceedings; the High Court's threshold interference remains possible but is not the usual course. The distinction between closure and lockout often requires oral and documentary evidence, so the Tribunal was correctly left to determine that jurisdictional fact. A reference under the Industrial Disputes Act must also be read fairly and contextually, and may cover the real controversy and incidental questions necessary for its decision. On that basis, the reference was valid and did not exclude examination of the transfer dispute or the closure-versus-lockout issue. en-us Thu, 02 Aug 1962 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 09 Nov 2015 10:24:06 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=175142 Where a jurisdictional objection turns on disputed and complex facts, the Industrial Tribunal should ordinarily decide the preliminary issue first, leaving any challenge to later proceedings; the High Court's threshold interference remains possible but is not the usual course. The distinction between closure and lockout often requires oral and documentary evidence, so the Tribunal was correctly left to determine that jurisdictional fact. A reference under the Industrial Disputes Act must also be read fairly and contextually, and may cover the real controversy and incidental questions necessary for its decision. On that basis, the reference was valid and did not exclude examination of the transfer dispute or the closure-versus-lockout issue. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 02 Aug 1962 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=175142