Burgess & Ors v Mount Thorley Operations Pty Limited [2003] NSWIRComm 22

Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales in Court Session

CITATION : Burgess & Ors v Mount Thorley Operations Pty Limited [2003] NSWIRComm 22 APPLICANTS: Michael John Burgess Raymond Gordon Wills Marvyn Smith Rodney William Jones Gregory Ian Bright Charles Anthony Mitchell Barry Fong PARTIES : Leslie James Irvine William Robert Hoye Frederick George Veigel Michael Bruce Sampson Ross Allen Brown Michael Mathew Phillips John Douglas Cuddigan

RESPONDENT: Mount Thorley Operations Pty Limited FILE NUMBER: 3614, 3615, 3616, 3617, 3618, 3619, 3620, 3621, 3622, 3623, 3624, 3625, 3626 and 3627 of 1998 CORAM: Schmidt J CATCHWORDS : Costs - Offers made during and after the s109 conciliation conference - Section 131 of the Evidence Act 1995 - Offer of Compromise - Calderbank offers - Offers made included the settlement of AIRC proceedings - no indemnity costs can flow from offers - applicants did not unreasonably refuse offers made - applicants ordered to bear respondent's costs as agreed or assessed Evidence Act 1995 LEGISLATION CITED : Industrial Relations Act 1991 Industrial Relations Act 1996 Police Service Act 1990 Bailey v Meredith, 11 May 2001 NSWCA 149 Ballard v Incoll Management (No 2) [2001] NSWIRComm 217 Bell & Berg v Macquarie Bank & Anor [2003] NSWIRComm 21 Boner v Anderson (No 2) (1993) 50 IR 470 Bruinsma v Menczer (1995) 40 NSWLR 716 Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union v Mount Thorley Operations Pty Limited (1997) 76 IR 364 Hairman v FileNET Corporation Pty Ltd [2002] NSWIRComm 76 Kelly v Foley (1993) 51 IR 331 Maciver v Hilton Nursing Home Pty Limited [2001] NSWIRComm 56 CASES CITED : Maitland Hospital v Fisher (1992) 29 NSWLR 721 Mt Thorley Operations Pty Limited v Burgess & Ors (2001) 103 IR 184 Mt Thorley Operations Pty Limited v Raymond Gordon Wills & Ors (Unreported, Wright J President, Walton J Vice-President, Glynn J, 2 November 1999) MGICA (1992) Ltd v Kenny & Good Pty Ltd and Another (No 4) 140 ALR 707 Multicon Engineering Pty Ltd v Federal Airports Corporation (1996) 138 ALR 425 NMFM Property Pty Ltd v Citibank Ltd (No 2) (2001) 109 FCR 77 Nobrega v Trustees of the Roman Catholic Church Sydney (No 2) [1999] NSWCA 133 RT Thomas & Family Pty Ltd v Jeffries Industries Ltd & Ors (unreported, Supreme Court of New South Wales, Giles J, 2 February 1996) Sheffield v Brambles Australia Limited and Anor [2002] NSWIRComm 166 Van Huisstede v Commissioner of Police (No 2) (2001) 106 IR 56 HEARING DATES: 12/13/2002 DATE OF JUDGMENT: 02/13/2003