Kennedy -V- Maher & Holmes Advertising Pty Limited [1998] NSWEOT

Equal Opportunity Tribunal of New South Wales

CITATION: Kennedy -V- Maher & Holmes Advertising Pty Limited [1998] NSWEOT

COMPLAINANT: Fiona Kennedy

RESPONDENT: Maher & Holmes Advertising Pty Ltd

NUMBER: 129 & 130 of 1995

G. Ireland ( Judicial Member ) TRIBUNAL: N. Lacey D. Toltz

GROUNDS OF COMPLAINT: Discrimination on the ground of sex in employment and victimisation

DATES OF HEARING: 08/01/1996; 08/02/1996; 10/21/1996; 10/22/1996; 02/06/1997; 02/07/1997 DATE OF JUDGMENT: 04/15/1998

Complainant: Ms J Cabassi, Inner City Legal Centre (Solicitor) Ms S Winters (Counsel)

LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES: Respondent: Mr G Parker, Slade Manwaring (Solicitor) Mr P Maiden (Counsel)

JUDGMENT IN FAVOUR OF:

GENERAL BACKGROUND

At the end of the second day of Hearing, the Respondent made an application under Section 111(1) of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (the Act), for Orders that the complaints of the Complainant be dismissed. On the 15 October 1996, the Tribunal gave its decision on that Application and found that the complaints under Section 24(1)(a) and (b) of the Act, were not capable of being substantiated, and in relation to the other complaints, the Tribunal decided that there was sufficient material to justify the continuation of the enquiry by the Tribunal in relation to those complaints.

To avoid repetition, a copy of the decision of the Tribunal in relation to the Application under Section 111(1) is attached to this decision. The attached decision sets out the history of the complaints which have been made to the Anti-Discrimination Board by the Complainant, and the reference by the Board to this Tribunal of the complaints for the purposes of an enquiry by the Tribunal under the Act.