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28. Assuming for a movement that the duty of the Appellant is technical, the question as to whether he is eliminated due to his duties being mainly managerial assumes importance. A gist of the Appellant's evidence relating to the nature of his duties was to the effect that he was rendering legal clarification on queries to the branch offices of the company and its factories, doing legal audit by checking if the statutory returns had been properly filled up, drafting, pleadings, studying case laws for maintaining a cardex particularly in relation to the pending cases of the company. That on occasions, he used to sanction leave to the stenographer, vouch for the travelling expenses of one Mr. Lobo who was working under him, giving dictation or typing work to the Stenographer, preparing notes from Law Journals, briefing Solicitors and advocates of the company, going through the records of domestic enquiries and notes of evidence led therein, in order to prepare a draft enquiry report for adoption by the enquiry officers, prepare notes of arguments along with relevant case laws and send them to the company's Personnel Executives at different locations. Study new Labour Legislations and attend hearings before the Conciliation officer and occasionally conduct domestic enquiries.