https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=304763 A tribunal under the Industrial Disputes Act is confined to the points expressly referred and matters incidental to them; it cannot go behind the reference to re-open the existence of a strike, sit-down strike, or lock-out assumed in the reference, though parties may lead evidence on justification, legality, or whether an industrial dispute exists at all. Prior settlements did not finally bar adjudication of the 1964-65 bonus allocation dispute because the earlier agreement concerned prior years and the later settlement only contemplated future calculation under the statutory bonus formula, without conclusively settling capital and reserve allocation. The strike-related issues remained within the reference, while the bonus allocation question stayed open for evidence and decision. en-us Fri, 14 Oct 1966 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 20 Oct 2022 11:47:34 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=304763 A tribunal under the Industrial Disputes Act is confined to the points expressly referred and matters incidental to them; it cannot go behind the reference to re-open the existence of a strike, sit-down strike, or lock-out assumed in the reference, though parties may lead evidence on justification, legality, or whether an industrial dispute exists at all. Prior settlements did not finally bar adjudication of the 1964-65 bonus allocation dispute because the earlier agreement concerned prior years and the later settlement only contemplated future calculation under the statutory bonus formula, without conclusively settling capital and reserve allocation. The strike-related issues remained within the reference, while the bonus allocation question stayed open for evidence and decision. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 14 Oct 1966 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=304763