Australian Salaried Medical Officers' Federation (New South Wales) (on behalf of Bruce Hall) v South Western Sydney Area Health Service [2006] NSWIRComm 101

Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales

CITATION: Australian Salaried Medical Officers' Federation (New South Wales) (on behalf of Bruce Hall) v South Western Sydney Area Health Service [2006] NSWIRComm 101

APPLICANT Australian Salaried Medical Officers' Federation (on behalf of Bruce Hall) PARTIES: RESPONDENT South Western Sydney Area Health Service

FILE NUMBER(S): IRC 1427 of 2005

CORAM: Staff J

CATCHWORDS: Unfair dismissal - Jurisdiction - Contract of employment with University - Whether contract of employment also with Area Health Service - Whether applicant dismissed from employment with Area Health Service - When contract of employment comes into existence - Intention to create a legal relationship - Whether genuine consent to the terms of contract - Held no contract of employment between applicant and Area Health Service - Applicant not employee of Area Health Service - Applicant excluded from obtaining relief

Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act 1986 Health Services Act 1997 LEGISLATION CITED: Industrial Relations Act 1996 Taxation Administration Act 1953 Workplace Relations Act 1996

Abdalla v Viewdaze Pty Ltd (2003) 53 ATR 30 Adam v Newbigging (1888) 13 App Cas 308 Amalgamated Colleries of W.A. Ltd -v- True (1938) 59 CLR 417 Australian Broadcasting Corporation v XIVth Commonwealth Games Limited (1988) 18 NSWLR 540 Australian Mutual Provident Society v Chaplin (1978) 18 ALR 385; (1978) 52 ALJR 406 Brambles Holdings Ltd v Bathurst City Council (2001) 53 NSWLR 153 Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia v Odco Pty Ltd (1991) 29 FCR 104 Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Ltd v Producers and Citizens Co-operative Assurance Co of Australia Ltd (1931) 46 CLR 41 Connelly v Wells (1994) 55 IR 73 Damevski v Guidice, the President of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission & others (2003) 202 ALR 494 Ex parte Delhasse; In re Megevand (1878) 7 Ch D 511 CASES CITED: Ex parte Robert John Pty Ltd; Re Fostars Shoes Pty Ltd [1963] SR (NSW) 260 Franks v Reuters Ltd and First Resort Employment Ltd (2003) EWCA Civ 417 (unreported, Supreme Court of Judicature Court of Appeal (Civil Division) President, Lord Justice Thorpe and Lord Justice Mummery, 10 April 2003) Gapes v Commercial Bank of Australia Limited (1981) 37 ALR 20 Hollis v Vabu Pty Ltd (2001) 207 CLR 21; (2001) 106 IR 80 Knowles v Anglican Church Property Trust, Diocese of Bathurst (1999) 89 IR 47 Massey v Crown Life Insurance Co [1978] 2 All ER 576 Nagle v Tilburg (1993) 51 IR 8 Narich Pty Ltd v Commissioners of Pay-roll Tax (NSW) (1983) 2 NSWLR 597 R v Foster; Ex parte Commonwealth Life (Amalgamated) Assurances Ltd (1952) 85 CLR 138 Re Porter; Re Transport Workers Union of Australia (1989) 34 IR 179 Stevens v Brodribb Sawmilling Co Pty Ltd (1986) 160 CLR 16 TNT Worldwide Express (NZ) Ltd v Cunningham [1993] 3 NZLR 681