Gough & Gilmour Holdings Pty Ltd and ors v Caterpillar of Australia Ltd [2001] NSWIRComm 92

Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales in Court Session

CITATION : Gough & Gilmour Holdings Pty Ltd and ors v Caterpillar of Australia Ltd [2001] NSWIRComm 92 FIRST APPLICANT Gough & Gilmour Holdings Pty Ltd

SECOND APPLICANT Harcourt David Gough PARTIES : THIRD APPLICANT Anthony Lansley Gilmour

RESPONDENT Caterpillar of Australia Limited FILE NUMBER: IRC 5227 of 2000 CORAM: Boland J CATCHWORDS : Unfair Contract - Preliminary issue - Joinder of a foreign corporation - Whether Court needed to satisfy itself that if it did order joinder it would grant leave to proceed under r 112(4) of the Industrial Relations Commission's Rules 1996 - Whether the necessary jurisdictional fact existed to provide the basis for ordering joinder of the foreign corporation - Whether the Court had power under s 106 of the Industrial Relations Act 1996 to add a party to a contract - Whether there was a sufficient connection in the Brown v Rezitis sense to order joinder - Whether an asset preservation order was the more appropriate remedy and therefore an application for joinder was an abuse of process - Whether r 112 of the Commission's Rules was a valid Rule - Whether a proceeding under s 106 is an action in personam - Joinder ordered - Question of leave to proceed adjourned - Costs reserved. Industrial Arbitration Act 1940 Industrial Arbitration (General) Regulations Industrial Relations Act 1991 Industrial Relations Act 1996 LEGISLATION CITED : Industrial Relations Commission Rules 1996 Interpretation Act 1987 Service and Execution of Process Act 1901 (Cth) Supreme Court Act 1970 Supreme Court Rules 1970 Ace Business Brokers Pty Ltd v Phillips-Treby (2000) 100 IR 420, [2000] NSWIRComm163 Attorney-General v Sillem (1864) 10 HLC 704 Agar v Hyde (2000) 74 ALJR 1219 Hyde v Agar (1998) 45 NSWLR 487 Bartolacci v Permanent Custodians Ltd (1992) 44 IR 388 Bell v Macquarie Bank (No 4) (1999) 93 IR 191 BP Exploration Co (Libya) Ltd v Hunt [1980] 1 NSWLR 496 Brown v Rezitis (1970) 127 CLR 157 Carter v NSW Rugby League Ltd (1997) 78 IR 368 Cooper v Sithe Energies Australia Ltd [2000] NSWIRComm 176 Eslick v Exben Pty Ltd [2001] NSWIRComm 68 Fernance v Wreckair Pty Ltd (1991) 22 NSWLR 439, (1991) 39 IR 280 CASES CITED : Gosper v Sawyer (1985) 160 CLR 548 Harrington v Lowe (1986) 190 CLR 311 Laurie v Carroll (1958) 98 CLR 310 Legal & General Assurance Society Ltd v Stock (1993) 49 IR 464 McGee v Yeomans [1977] 1 NSWLR 273 Minister for Youth & Community Services v Health and Research Employees of Australia, New South Wales Branch (1987) 22 IR 59 at 74 Reich v Client Server Professionals of Australia Pty Limited (Administrator Appointed) (2000) 99 IR 69 Smith v Clutha Pty Ltd (1989) 28 IR 306 Societe Generale de Paris v Dreyfus Brothers (1885) 29 Ch D 239 Visalli v Southwell (1988) 28 IR 234 at 241 Voth v Manildra Flour Mills Pty Ltd (1990) 171 CLR 539 Walker v Hussman Pty Ltd (1991) 24 NSWLR 451 Wong v Cheng (1999) 91 IR 376 Wreckair Pty Ltd v Fernance (1994) 58 IR 343 HEARING DATES: 03/27/2001; 03/29/2001 DATE OF JUDGMENT: 05/01/2001