1. This appeal is directed against a decision of the learned VIth Labour Court, given on 23rd December, 1979, dismissing the appellant's grievance petition wherein he had alleged that his services had been illegally terminated on the basis of a forged resignation. A preliminary objection has been raised to the maintainability of the grievance petition by Mr. Abdul Ghani Khan, learned counsel for the respondents to the effect that whereas under the law the appellant workman was required to serve the grievance notice on the employer himself, or through his Shop Steward or the C.B.A., the grievance notice was given through his Advocate. It has been held by their Lordships of the Supreme Court in the case of Muhammad Hussain v. Pakistan Tobacco Company Ltd. , that grievance notice served by an Advocate on behalf of the client is not in conformity with requirement of law. As the service of the requisite notice is a precondition for the filing of the grievance petition, the appellant's grievance petition is clearly not maintainable. This position was frankly conceded by Mr. Fasahat Hussain Rizvi, the learned counsel for the appellant. In view of the legal position, the appeal is dismissed on the ground that the grievance petition is not maintainable. PLD 1980 SC 811 1