Brown v Richmond Golf Club & anor [2006] NSWADT 104

CITATION: Brown v Richmond Golf Club & anor [2006] NSWADT 104

DIVISION: Equal Opportunity Division

APPLICANT Maree Alison Brown PARTIES: FIRST RESPONDENT Richmond Golf Club Ltd SECOND RESPONDENT Ronald Slym

FILE NUMBER: 051026

HEARING DATES: 15/11/05-16/11/05

SUBMISSIONS CLOSED: 02/20/2006

DATE OF DECISION: 04/07/2006

BEFORE: Britton A - Judicial Member; Mooney L - Non Judicial Member; Schneeweiss J - Non Judicial Member

CATCHWORDS: Sex Discrimination - In work - Sexual Harassment - In workplace - Victimisation

MATTER FOR DECISION: Principal matter

LEGISLATION CITED : Anti-Discrimination Act 1977

Briginshaw v Briginshaw (1938) 60 CLR 336 Duhbihur v Transport Appeal Board & anor [2005] NSWSC 811 Dutt v Central Coast Area Health Service (EOD) [2003] NSWADTAP 3 Hall v Sheiban (1989) 85 ALR 503 IW and City of Perth (1997) 191 CLR 1 CASES CITED: O'Callaghan v Loder [1983] 3 NSWLR 89 O'Callaghan v Loder [1984] EOC 92-023 Reddrop v Boehringer Ingelheim Pty Ltd [1984] EOC 92-031 Shellharbour Golf Club v Wheeler [1999] NSWSC 224 Sivananthan v Commissioner of Police, NSW Police Service [2001] NSWADT 44 Waterhouse v Bell (1991) 25 NSWLR 99

APPLICANT In person

REPRESENTATION: FIRST RESPONDENT P Moorehouse, barrister SECOND RESPONDENT In person

ORDERS: 1. The complaints of victimisation and sex discrimination made against the First Respondent are dismissed; 2. That part of the complaint of sexual harassment that relates to the use of inappropriate language by the Second Respondent is substantiated; 3. The balance of the complaints made against the Second Respondent are dismissed.