Wheeler -V- Shellharbour Golf Club Limited, Gough & Jeffrey (No.1) [1996] NSWEOT

Equal Opportunity Tribunal of New South Wales

CITATION: Wheeler -V- Shellharbour Golf Club Limited, Gough & Jeffrey (No.1) [1996] NSWEOT

COMPLAINANT: Ms Lynne Isabel Wheeler

First Respondent Shellharbour Golf Club Limited

RESPONDENT: Second Respondent Mr James Gough

Third Respondent Ms Delmar Veronica Jeffrey

NUMBER: 85 of 1995

Ms Penny Goode ( Judicial Member ) TRIBUNAL: Ms M Alt Mr D McNeill

GROUNDS OF COMPLAINT: Sex discrimination (sexual harassment) Victimisation

DATES OF HEARING: 05/14/1996; 05/15/1996; 08/26/1996; 09/02/1996; 09/03/1996 DATE OF JUDGMENT: 09/02/1996

Complainant: Ms S Davitt (Solicitor) Redfern Legal Centre Ms S Winters (Counsel)

Respondent: First and Third Respondent LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES: Mr C Osborne (Solicitor) Russell McClelland and Brown Ms J Gleeson (Counsel)

Second Respondent Mr G Morrison (Solicitor) Leo and Morrison Mr S Hill (Counsel)

JUDGMENT IN FAVOUR OF:

On the first day of the hearing of this matter, on 14 May 1996, Ms Winters, counsel for the Complainant, made an application for leave to amend the Points of Claim which were filed with the Tribunal on 22 December 1995.

Ms Gleeson, counsel for the First and Third Respondents, and Mr Hill, counsel for the Second Respondent, objected to leave being granted, first on the basis that the amendments were misconceived and secondly, on the basis that prejudice would be occasioned to the respondents.