KC Vohrah J:

Brief Facts

The applicant's service as a professor in the University of Malaya (UM) came to an end when UM decided not to renew his contract of employment when it expired on 28 February 1999.

The applicant in this certiorariapplication complains that he had been dismissed from employment and had not been accorded a hearing before he was dismissed.

Alternatively, he says that UM did not give him the benefit of continued employment which was founded on the representations of UM to him, and which induced him to leave University Science Malaysia (USM) where he was a permanent staff, that the applicant would be made a permanent staff of UM although he was to be employed on a year to year basis because of administrative requirements; that he had a legitimate expectation to continue to be employed as a professor at UM until he retires and that there was also a legitimate expectation to be heard before UM made its decision not to renew his contract and these legitimate expectations had been breached.

In regard to the first complaint that he was dismissed he says that he had a constitutional right to livelihood by being a member of one of the Public Services, the Educa