Smartskip (NSW) Pty Ltd and Transport Workers' Union of New South Wales [2008] NSWIRComm 222

Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales

CITATION: Smartskip (NSW) Pty Ltd and Transport Workers' Union of New South Wales [2008] NSWIRComm 222

APPELLANT Smartskip (NSW) Pty Ltd

PARTIES: RESPONDENTS Transport Workers' Union of New South Wales TWS NSW Pty Ltd Ready Transport

FILE NUMBER(S): IRC 502 of 2008

CORAM: Harrison DP; Kavanagh J; Staff J

CATCHWORDS: Appeal - Application for leave to appeal and appeal - Applications for compensation arising from termination of contracts of carriage - Maximum compensation ordered - Challenge to findings of fact at first instance - Challenge to exercise of discretion at first instance re amount of compensation awarded - No error found - Issues raised on appeal not argued at first instance - Nothing put to justify appellate intervention re award of compenation - Leave to appeal refused - Appeal dismissed - Industrial Relations Act 1996 (NSW), s 187, s 188, s 314

LEGISLATION CITED: Industrial Relations Act 1996

Ace Business Brokers Pty Ltd v Phillips-Treby (2000) 100 IR 420 Austin v NF Importers Pty Ltd & Anor (2005) 146 IR 113 Box Valley Pty Ltd v Price (2000) 97 IR 484 Caltex Petroleum Pty Ltd v Harmer (1999) 92 IR 264 Coal and Allied Operations Pty Ltd v Australian Industrial Relations Commission (2000) 203 CLR 194 De Simone Consulting Pty Ltd v Ison (2000) 97 IR 478 CASES CITED: House v The King (1936) 55 CLR 499 Knowles v Anglican Church Property Trust (No 2) (1999) 95 IR 380 Metropolitan Meat Industry Board v Australian Meat Industry Employees' Union, New South Wales (1973) AR 231 Perrott v XcelleNet Australia Ltd (1998) 84 IR 255 at 265 Soulemezis v Dudley (Holdings) Pty Ltd (1987) 10 NSWLR 247 Strathfield Group Ltd v Hall (2002) 121 IR 158 Transport Workers' Union of New South Wales (on behalf of TWS NSW Pty Ltd and Ready Transport) and Smartskip (NSW) Ltd [2008] NSWIRComm 55