NSW Caselaw
Equal Opportunity Tribunal of New South Wales
CITATION: French -V- Sydney Turf Club [1998] NSWEOT
COMPLAINANT: Margaret French
RESPONDENT: Sydney Turf Club
NUMBER: 212 of 1996
Mr Reginald Bartley AM ( Judicial Member ) TRIBUNAL: Ms S Tracey Mr A Silva
GROUNDS OF COMPLAINT: Disability discrimination - employment
DATES OF HEARING: DATE OF JUDGMENT: 02/13/1998
Complainant: Mr A Whyburn R L Whyburn & Associates (Solicitor) Ms N Rudland (Counsel) LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES: Respondent: Mr P Sandel Manion McCosker (Solicitor) Mr R Warren (Counsel)
JUDGMENT IN FAVOUR OF: Respondent
On 15 May 1995 Margaret French, (hereinafter called the complainant), complained to the Anti-Discrimination Board against her employer, the Sydney Turf Club, (hereinafter called the respondent) on the ground of discrimination in work based on the fact the employer, the respondent, had discriminated against her being a person with a physical impairment by which she had suffered a detriment.
The parties have agreed on the following facts:
(1) The complainant, Margaret French, is a female who was born on 30 April 1944.
(2) The respondent, the Sydney Turf Club, operates inter alia a catering and liquor service at racecourses in the Sydney metropolitan area.
(3) The complainant was employed with the respondent as a bar attendant, initially working seven to eight hours each day of race meetings at Rosehill Gardens and Canterbury Racecourses.
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