Expertise
Service Law
Employment in the public service: recruitment, seniority, discipline, pension and termination, before the Central Administrative Tribunal, the Armed Forces Tribunal and the High Courts.
Service law is the law of public employment: the terms on which a person joins the service of the State or its instrumentalities, is promoted, disciplined, transferred and retired. The chamber acts for officers and employees of the Union, the States and public-sector undertakings, and for the employing bodies, in the tribunals that hear these matters at first instance and in the writ jurisdiction of the High Courts above them.
The work includes challenges to recruitment rules and selection processes, disputes over seniority and promotion, disciplinary proceedings and the penalties that follow them, compulsory retirement, pension and terminal benefits, and the service conditions of members of the armed forces before the Armed Forces Tribunal.
Tender and government-contract disputes, such as a bid rejected, a blacklisting order or a contract terminated by a public body, are handled alongside, because the same principles of fairness in State action apply.
What the work includes
- Original applications before the Central Administrative Tribunal
- Matters before the Armed Forces Tribunal
- Recruitment, selection and seniority disputes
- Disciplinary proceedings and penalties
- Pension and terminal benefits
- Tender, blacklisting and government-contract challenges