Windrum & Anor v Matrix Healthcare Pty Ltd trading as Combined Pathology & Anor [2007] NSWIRComm 96

Industrial Court of New South Wales

CITATION: Windrum & Anor v Matrix Healthcare Pty Ltd trading as Combined Pathology & Anor [2007] NSWIRComm 96

FIRST APPLICANT Dr Graham Windrum

SECOND APPLICANT Monkerai Pathology Services Pty Ltd PARTIES: FIRST RESPONDENT Matrix Healthcare Pty Ltd t/as Combined Pathology

SECOND RESPONDENT Peter John Court

FILE NUMBER(S): IRC 2739 of 2005

CORAM: Staff J

CATCHWORDS: Unfair contract - Notice of motion - Jurisdiction - Whether contract and/or arrangement between the parties - Whether second respondent party to any contract or arrangement - Whether a number of separate contracts form part of a specific arrangement - Arrangement - Whether summons statute barred - Whether unfair conduct renders contract unfair - Whether culpability pre-requsite before money orders can be made against a non-party - Held - Contract includes arrangement - Contracts so associated with each other to constitute an arrangement - requirements of s 108B met - Unfairness more than a mere claim of unfair conduct - Culpability not a pre-requisite to making order against non-party - Notice of motion dismissed.

Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 LEGISLATION CITED: Industrial Relations Act 1996 Industrial Relations Commission Rules 1996

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