King v Automotive Food Metals Engineering Printing & Kindred Industries Union [2000] FCA 1900

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

King v Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing & Kindred Industries Union

[2000] FCA 1900 INDUSTRIAL LAW – jurisdiction – obtaining an order for an electoral ballot for union disamalgamation – exercising judicial power or administrative power – whether a valid grant of judicial power CONSTITUTIONAL LAW – whether jurisdiction is the exercise of judicial power COURTS – whether jurisdiction is the exercise of judicial power Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cth) Proceeds of Crime Act 1987 (Cth) Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904-1960 (Cth) Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) Life Insurance Act 1995 (Cth) Local Government Act 1919 (NSW) (now repealed) Co-operatives Act 1992 (NSW) Commissioner of State Revenue (Victoria) v Royal Insurance Australia Ltd (1994) 182 CLR 51 cited Harris v Caladine (1991) 172 CLR 84 considered Australasian Memory Pty Ltd v Brien [2000] HCA 30 cited The Queen v Trade Practices Tribunal; ex parte Tasmanian Breweries Pty Ltd (1970) 123 CLR 361 considered Truth About Motorways Pty Ltd v Macquarie Infrastructure Investment Management Ltd (2000) 169 ALR 616 cited R v Joske; ex parte Shop Distributive & Allied Employees Association (1976) 135 CLR 194 followed Precision Data Holdings Ltd v Wills (1991) 173 CLR 167 cited Director of Public Prosecutions v Toro-Martinez (1993) 33 NSWLR 82 cited R v Hegarty; ex parte City of Salisbury (1981) 147 CLR 616 followed Kable v Director of Public Prosecutions (NSW) (1996) 189 CLR 51 cited Re McJannet; ex parte Minister for Employment Training and Industrial Relations (Q) (1995) 184 CLR 620 discussed McJannet v White (1992) 39 FCR 1 cited Re Thompson; in the matter of an application for an inquiry relating to an election for an office in the Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union, Victorian Branch [2000] FCA 745 cited Re Australian Builders' Labourers' Federation: Leary v The Australian Builders' Labourers' Federation (NSW) (1961) 2 FLR 342 cited R v Commonwealth Industrial Court; ex parte The Amalgamated Engineering Union, Australian Section (1960) 103 CLR 368 cited Re Mellor; re Federated Liquor and Allied Industries Employees Union of Australia, Queensland Branch(1986) 17 IR 398 cited Re Application by Adamson for an Election Inquiry in the Amalgamated Metals Foundry and Shipwrights Union (Federal Court of Australia, Gray J, 17 June 1985, unreported) cited Sue v Hill (1999) 73 ALJR 1016 cited Palling v Corfield (1970) 123 CLR 52 followed Wynbyne v Marshall (1997) 117 NTR 11 followed Re NRMA Ltd [2000] 33 ACSR 595 cited Re NRMA Ltd [2000] NSWSC 408 cited Bulfin v Bebarfalds Ltd (1938) 38 SR(NSW) 423 cited Fraser v NRMA Holdings Ltd (1994) 52 FCR 1 Fraser v NRMA Holdings Ltd (1995) 55 FCR 452 Samic Ltd v Metals Exploration Ltd (1993) 60 SASR 300 cited Schaffer Corporation Ltd v Hawkesbury City Council (1992) 77 LGRA 21 cited Australian Securities Commission v Marlborough Gold Mines Ltd (1993) 177 CLR 485 cited Re Armstrong Jones Life Assurance Ltd (1997) 74 FCR 160 cited In re Alabama, New Orleans, Texas & Pacific Junction Railway Company [1891] 1 Ch 213 cited Re Hudson Conway Ltd (2000) 33 ACSR 657 cited Grollo v Palmer (1995) 184 CLR 348 cited whatever happened to boilermakers? Pt II, De Meyrick, (1995) 69 ALJ 189 BASIL KING v AUTOMOTIVE, FOOD, METALS, ENGINEERING, PRINTING AND KINDRED INDUSTRIES UNION N 1403 OF 1999 BRANSON, FINKELSTEIN and GYLES JJ SYDNEY 21 DECEMBER 2000