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The Association did not wait for the answere On the 14th November, which was a Wednesday, it wrote again to the
Secretary for the Civil Service informing him that its members
would work to rule in certain ways as from the 16th, that is
the Friday, and warned that if this elicited no response from
Government within one week the Association would have to
escalate its actions. The certain ways mentioned in the
letter included a refusal to work evening clinics and a
refusal to undertake manufacturing duties. Accordingly,
on the Friday, all the plaintiffs save one refused to perform
one or other of those duties and were in due course suspended,
most of them on the 26th November. The refusal of the odd
plaintiff out was for some reason not made until the
4th December and she was suspended on the 6th of that month.
All the plaintiffs received a letter in the terms set out below.
The Letters were written in accordance with a decision taken
the day before by the Acting Governor.
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Dear Sir/Madam,
29 November 1979
I am satisfied that you have refused or omitted to perform all or part of your
duties.
Particulars:
(as appropriate to the individual).
You have already been reminded by the Director of Medical and Health Services in his letter dated 14th November, 1979 that any officer who refuses or omits to perform for any period any part of the usual duties of his/her office may be subject to action under CSR 611.
This letter serves to inform you that you are suspended from duty without pay with effect from mid-night 29th November, 1979 until such time as you resume the full range of your usual duties.
Yours faithfully,
(S.K. Chan)
for Secretary for the Civil Service."