Federal Court of Australia
FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
Coal & Allied Mining Services Pty Ltd v Lawler [2011] FCAFC 54 Citation: Coal & Allied Mining Services Pty Ltd v Lawler [2011] FCAFC 54
Parties: COAL & ALLIED MINING SERVICES PTY LTD v VICE PRESIDENT LAWLER, SENIOR DEPUTY PRESIDENT O'CALLAGHAN & COMMISSIONER ROBERTS OF FAIR WORK AUSTRALIA and LINDSAY DOUGLAS LAWRENCE
File number: NSD 32 of 2011
Judges: MARSHALL, COWDROY AND BUCHANAN JJ
Date of judgment: 19 April 2011
Catchwords: ADMINISTRATIVE LAW – appeal against discretionary decision – whether Wednesbury unreasonableness is indistinguishable from the tests in House v The King – whether jurisdictional error or error within jurisdiction CONSTITUTIONAL LAW – assertion of jurisdictional error in the conduct of an appeal by Fair Work Australia – appeal against discretionary decision – no jurisdictional error established
Legislation: Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) Part 3-2, ss 385, 387, 391, 392, 394, 400, 572, 575, 576, 577, 590, 591, 604 Judiciary Act 1903 (Cth) s 39B
Cases cited: Anisminic Limited v Foreign Compensation Commission [1969] 2 AC 147 Associated Provincial Picture Houses Limited v Wednesbury Corporation [1948] 1 KB 223 Byrne v Australian Airlines Ltd (1995) 185 CLR 410 Coal and Allied Operations Pty Limited v Australian Industrial Relations Commission (2000) 203 CLR 194 Dinsdale v R (2000) 202 CLR 321 GlaxoSmithKline Australia Pty Ltd v Makin [2010] FWAFB 5343 Hogan v Hinch (2011) ALJR 398 House v The King (1936) 55 CLR 499 Lawrence v Coal & Allied Mining Services Pty Ltd t/as Mt Thorley Operations/Warkworth [2010] FWA 6750 Lawrence v Coal & Allied Mining Services Pty Ltd t/as Mt Thorley Operations/Warkworth [2010] FWAFB 10089 Minister for Aboriginal Affairs v Peko-Wallsend Limited (1986) 162 CLR 24 Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs v Eshetu (1999) 197 CLR 611 O'Sullivan v Farrer (1989) 168 CLR 210 R v Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission; Ex parte Angliss Group (1969) 122 CLR 546 R v Gray; Ex parte Marsh (1985) 157 CLR 351 R v Moore; Ex parte Victoria (1977) 140 CLR 92 Re Australian Bank Employees Union; Ex parte Citicorp Australia Ltd (1989) 167 CLR 513 Re Commonwealth of Australia; Ex parte Marks (2000) 75 ALJR 470 Re Finance Sector Union of Australia; Ex parte Illaton Pty Ltd (1992) 66 ALJR 583 Re Heerey; Ex parte Heinrich (2001) 185 ALR 106 Re Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs; Ex parte Holland (2001) 185 ALR 504 Re Operative Plasterers Workers Federation of Australia; Ex parte Brown (1992) 67 ALJR 179 Re Polites; Ex parte Hoyts Corporation Pty Limited (1991) 173 CLR 78
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