Key legal question
Whether the immediate dismissal on 13 January 1999 was justified by just cause.
Extracted holding
The employee’s conduct did not amount to a sufficiently serious breach, and no clear prior warning was established; the immediate dismissal was unjustified.
Extracted reasoning
The intrusion into the premises, refusal to leave, and threat to contact the press were assessed in the context of the prolonged workplace conflict; the employer’s prior exclusion order had lost urgency, and the conduct did not reach the threshold for summary dismissal.