A for­mer Ca­roni (1975) Ltd em­ploy­ee has failed in his fi­nal bid to pur­sue a law­suit over be­ing re­trenched af­ter re­fus­ing vol­un­tary sep­a­ra­tion, al­most two decades ago.

De­liv­er­ing a judg­ment last Wednes­day, five law lords of the Unit­ed King­dom-based Privy Coun­cil dis­missed An­tho­ny Noel Ho­sein’s fi­nal ap­peal over con­sec­u­tive de­ci­sions by the lo­cal courts to refuse to hear his case due to his de­lay in pur­su­ing it.

Lord Nicholas Ham­blen, who de­liv­ered the Board’s de­ci­sion, ruled that the Ap­peal Court could not be fault­ed for agree­ing with a High Court Judge over the un­war­rant­ed de­lay.