Cook v Australian Postal Corporation [2018] FCAFC 208

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Cook v Australian Postal Corporation [2018] FCAFC 208 Appeal from: Cook v Australian Postal Corporation [2018] FCA 81

File number: NSD 296 of 2018

Judges: RARES, PERRY AND CHARLESWORTH JJ

Date of judgment: 21 August 2018

Catchwords: INDUSTRIAL LAW – unfair dismissal – Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) Pt 3-2 – appeal from decision of primary judge to refuse judicial review application – whether ss 725 and 728 prevailed when considering in application under Pt 3-2 if dismissal occurred for proscribed reason based on applicant's claim that employer terminated him because he was a workplace representative

Legislation: Constitution Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) Div 4 of Pt 3-2, Pt 6-4, ss 3, 381, 385, 387, 391, 392, 394, 400, 570, 604, 725, 729, 771, 772, 773, 774 Federal Court Rules 2011 Pt 25 Convention Concerning Termination of Employment at the Initiative of the Employer done at Geneva on 22 June 1982

Cases cited: Adams v Director of the Fair Work Building Industry Inspectorate (2017) 351 ALR 379 Blyth Chemicals Limited v Bushnell (1933) 49 CLR 66 Calderbank v Calderbank [1976] Fam 93 Commonwealth Bank of Australia v Barker (2014) 253 CLR 169 Cook v Australian Postal Corporation [2017] FCA 509 Duncan v New South Wales (2015) 255 CLR 388 House v The King (1936) 55 CLR 499 Lambert v Weichelt (1954) 28 ALR 282 Minister for Aboriginal Affairs v Peko-Wallsend Ltd (1986) 162 CLR 24 Plaintiff M64/2015 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection (2015) 258 CLR 173 Quentin Cook v Australian Postal Corporation t/a Australia Post [2016] FWC 5692 Quentin Cook v Australian Postal Corporation t/a Australia Post [2016] FWCFB 7203 Tajjour v State of New South Wales (2014) 254 CLR 508 Walton v Gardiner (1993) 177 CLR 378