Patty v Commonwealth Bank [2000] FCA 1072

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Patty v Commonwealth Bank [2000] FCA 1072 INDUSTRIAL – TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT - review of Judicial Registrar's decision dismissing employee's application – whether employer had established on balance of probabilities that it had a valid reason for termination JURISDICTION – application for review of Judicial Registrar's decision filed in Federal Court – subsequent change in law raising jurisdictional question – whether Industrial Relations Court of Australia has exclusive jurisdiction to determine application – hearing conducted in Federal Court before Judge of both Federal Court and Industrial Relations Court of Australia – whether discretionary power to rectify consequence of finding that jurisdiction possessed by Industrial Relations Court and not Federal Court.

Industrial Relations Act 1988 (Cth) ss 377, 419, 481 Workplace Relations and Other Legislation Amendment Act 1996 (Cth) Sch 16 Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 s 23

Autistic Association of New South Wales v Dodson [1999] FCA 439 (unreported, 14 April 1999) Kumar v. Prima Furniture (NSW) Pty Ltd (1997) 75 FCR 477 Zechner v Department of School Education [1999] FCA 445; (1999) 88 IR 142 Konrad v Victoria Police [1999] FCA 988; (1999) 165 ALR 23 Jackson v Sterling Industries Ltd (1987) 162 CLR 612 Victoria v The Commonwealth (1996) 187 CLR 416 Qantas Airways Limited v Cornwall (1998) 83 IR 102 Cosco Holdings Pty Ltd v Thu Thi Van Do (1997) 77 IR 94 Murdoch University v Mainsbridge (1998) 84 IR 111 Sangwin v Imogen Pty Ltd (von Doussa J, IRCA, 8 March 1996, unreported) Selvachandran v Peteron Plastics Pty Ltd (1995) 62 IR 371 Associated Dominion Assurance Society Pty Ltd v Andrew (1949) 49 NSWSR 351 Allied Express Transport Pty limited v Anderson (1998) 81 IR 410

DEAN PATTY v COMMONWEALTH BANK OF AUSTRALIA (ACN 123 123 124) VI 2542 of 1996 RYAN J MELBOURNE 4 AUGUST 2000