Concrete Constructions Pty Ltd & Anor v The Plumbers & Gasfitter [1987] FCA 109

aoe a ' a - ' Judgement No,/ OF 5 CATCHWORDS

TRADE PRACTICES - Secondary boycotts - Bans imposed upon items

of work to be performed by building sub-contractors - Loss

occasioned to head contractors - Applications for interlocutory injunctions - Whether purpose of bans was to cause loss to head contractors - Persons involved in the

imposition of the bans - Dominant purpose for which conduct is

engaged in -- Exercise of discretion - Mandatory order.

PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE - Return of subpoenas - Objection to production of documents on ground of self-incrimination -

Subpoena addressed to officer of body corporate - Availability

of this ground in relation to uncrimination of the body

corporate - Possibility of prosecution of officer for criminal conspiracy - Whether offence of criminal conspiracy extends to

agreements to perform acts not themselves criminal.

Trade Practices Act 1974, ss. 45D, 76, 78, 80. Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904, ss.4, 33, 119.

NSW G.51 of 1987

CONCRETE CONSTRUCTIONS PTY. LIMITED & ANOR v THE PLUMBERS AND

GASFITTERS EMPLOYEES' UNION OF AUSTRALIA & ANOR

NSW G.54 of 1987 SABEMO PTY LIMITED v THE PLUMBERS AND GASFITTERS EMPLOYEES '

UNION OF AUSTRALIA & ANOR

NSW G.55 of 1987

LEIGHTON CONTRACTORS PTY LIMITED v THE PLUMBERS AND GASFITTERS

EMPLOYEES' UNION OF AUSTRALIA & ANOR

NSW G.57 of 1987 CIVIL & CIVIC PTY LIMITED v_ THE PLUMBERS AND GASFITTERS

EMPLOYEES ' UNION OF AUSTRALIA & ORS

NSW G.58 of 1987 WHITE INDUSTRIES LIMITED v THE PLUMBERS AND GASFITTERS EMPLOYEES' UNION OF AUSTRLIA & ANOR

NSW G.59 of 1987 JENNINGS CONSTRUCTION LIMITED v THE PLUMBERS AND GASFITTERS EMPLOYEES' UNION OF AUSTRALIA & ANOR

NSW G.60 of 1987 BARCLAY BROS PTY LIMITED v THE PLUMBERS AND GASFITTERS EMPLOYEES' UNION OF AUSTRALIA & ANOR

NSW G.64 of 1987 JOHN HOLLAND CONSTRUCTIONS PTY LIMITED v THE PLUMBER GASFITTERS EMPLOYEES' UNION OF AUSTRALIA & ANOR hen