"An excellent public servant was illegally dismissed, and the city has been much worse off because of it," he said yesterday.

The investigation, which is continuing, found that at least $71,043 worth of summonses had been illegally dismissed since December 1986.

The students filed a 13-page civil suit with damages against the school for illegally dismissing them without factual basis.

The report found that when workers have tried to organize unions, the rate at which workers have been dismissed illegally has risen in recent years.

Activists are illegally dismissed, strikes are forcibly broken up by the army or police and many unionists have been killed.

The other two judges who were also illegally dismissed had previously tendered their resignations and as such were not subject to the courts order.

House Republicans fought the board's policy of seeking to reduce delays by pursuing emergency injunctions against companies for actions like illegally dismissing pro-union workers.

A utility company has paid $50,000 to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for illegally dismissing a worker who was exposed to radioactive gas.

This standoff continued until 1972, when George Papadopoulos illegally dismissed George Zoitakis and appointed himself regent.

The NTEU has said all along that Dr Steele was dismissed illegally.