Hockey wins big against WIN TV FORMER WIN TV executive Rod Hockey is expected to be paid hundreds of thousands of dollars after winning his breach-of-contract case against the network in the Federal Court. Mr Hockey sensationally claimed when the case was heard in March that WIN TV's billionaire owner Bruce Gordon had bullied him and referred to him as the "manager of the toilet rolls and the weeds." He argued that although he resigned from the network in February last year, under the terms of his employment he was entitled to be paid out until September 3 this year. Today Justice Alan Robertson said the case rested on a letter varying Mr Hockey's employment contract that indicated that if he gave notice of termination to WIN, as he had in February last year, he would be entitled to be paid up until September 3 this year. WIN had paid Mr Hockey $199,406, arguing he was not entitled to a higher amount. Justice Robertson ruled the language of the letter was not ambiguous and ruled in favour of Mr Hockey. He also ordered WIN to pay Mr Hockey's costs. But he ruled WIN had not engaged in misleading conduct, as Mr Hockey had alleged. Mr Hockey is seeking gross damages in the amount of $404,490. The parties were ordered to come to terms over the exact amount of the payout, or the matter would return to court. Mr Hockey joined the network in Wollongong in 1985 as a tape operator and worked his way up to the position of network director of production. However his 27 years of service ended in bitterness after what he described as years of bullying by its Bermuda-based owner, 84-year-old Mr Gordon. WIN chief executive Andrew Lancaster said an affidavit that to his knowledge Mr Hockey had never made a complaint of bullying under the company's bullying policy.