Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union, New South Wales Branch v Alan Thomas David and others [2005] NSWIRComm 428

Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales in Court Session

CITATION: Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union, New South Wales Branch v Alan Thomas David and others [2005] NSWIRComm 428

APPLICANT Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union, New South Wales Branch

FIRST RESPONDENT PARTIES: Alan Thomas David

SECOND RESPONDENT John Lawrence Coates

FILE NUMBER(S): 2950 of 2004

CORAM: Marks J

Section 106 - interlocutory application - strike-out motion - whether case is untenable - application of Brown v Rezitis principles - applicant's case against second respondent dismissed - costs. CATCHWORDS: Section 106 - interlocutory application - joinder application for additional respondent - notice of motion not amended - application of Brown v Rezitis principles - sale of first respondent to potential joined respondent - whether case is untenable - joinder application refused - costs.

LEGISLATION CITED: Industrial Relations Act 1996

Ace Business Brokers Pty Ltd v Phillips-Treby [2000] NSWIRComm 163 Brown v Rezitis (1970) 127 CLR 157 CASES CITED: General Steel Industries v Commissioner for Railways NSW (1964) 112 CLR 125 Mestrom v Alison Clint Floral Delivery Pty Ltd (No2) (1971) 71 AR (NSW) 216 Virtue v New South Wales Department of Education and Training (1999) 92 IR 428

HEARING DATES: 11/16/2005

DATE OF JUDGMENT: 11/30/2005

APPLICANT Mr I Latham of counsel Solicitor: Mr S Penning Turner Freeman Lawyers