Commissioner of Corrective Services -v- Maxwell & anor (EOD) [2001] NSWADTAP 21

Appeal Panel

CITATION: Commissioner of Corrective Services -v- Maxwell & anor (EOD) [2001] NSWADTAP 21 APPELLANT Commissioner of Corrective Services PARTIES: RESPONDENTS Anthony Maxwell Central Sydney Area Health Service FILE NUMBER: 009010 HEARING DATES: 23/10/2000 SUBMISSIONS CLOSED: 10/23/2000 DATE OF DECISION: 07/18/2001

Maxwell -v- Commisioner of Corrective Services & anor [2000] NSWADT 22 DECISION UNDER APPEAL: BEFORE: Latham M - DCJ (Deputy President); Rees N - Judicial Member; Taksa L - Member CATCHWORDS: jurisdiction - statutory interpretation MATTER FOR DECISION: Principal matter FILE NUMBER UNDER APPEAL: 991021, 991022 DATE OF DECISION UNDER APPEAL: 03/13/2000 LEGISLATION CITED : Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 Maxwell v Commissioner of Corrective Services & anor [2000] NSWADT 22 Kitt v Tourism Commission (1987) 11 NSWLR 686 Equal Opportunity Tribunal in Plumb and Thurkettle v Commissioner of Corrective Services (unreported, 25 August 1998) Hart v Jacobs (1981) 39 ALR 209 Director-General of Education v Breen (1982) 2 IR 93 Boehringer Ingelheim Pty Ltd v Reddrop [1984] 2 NSWLR 13 Bropho v State of Western Australia (1990) 171 CLR 1 Qantas Airways Ltd v Christie (1998) 193 CLR 280 X v Commonwealth of Australia (2000) 74 ALJR 176 CASES CITED: Qantas Airways Ltd v Gubbins [1992] 28 NSWLR 26 Commissioner of Corrective Services v Aldridge [2000] NSWADTAP 5 IW v City of Perth (1997) 191 CLR 1 Waters v Public Transport Corporation (1991) 173 CLR 349 Australian Iron and Steel v Banovic (1989) 168 CLR 165 Craig v State of South Australia (1995) 131 ALR 595 In re Racal Communications Ltd (22) Coal and Allied Operations Pty Ltd v Australian Industrial Relations Commission (2000) 74 ALJR 1348 R v Kirby; Ex Parte Boilermakers' Society of Australia (1956) 94 CLR 254 Kable v Director of Public Prosecutions (1996) 138 ALR 577 Brandy v Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (1995) 183 CLR 245 APPELLANT T Anderson, barrister RESPONDENTS REPRESENTATION: No appearance