Surfing Hardware International Holdings Pty Limited and Ors v William McCausland and Anor (No 5) [2007] NSWIRComm 167

Industrial Court of New South Wales

CITATION: Surfing Hardware International Holdings Pty Limited and Ors v William McCausland and Anor (No 5) [2007] NSWIRComm 167

FIRST APPELLANT Surfing Hardware International Holdings Pty Limited

SECOND APPELLANT SHI Holdings Pty Limited

THIRD APPELLANT Surf Hardware International Pty Limited

PARTIES: FOURTH APPELLANT Timothy Bosher

FIFTH APPELLANT Timothy Ford

FIRST RESPONDENT William McCausland

SECOND RESPONDENT Yvonne McCausland

FILE NUMBER(S): IRC 2876 of 2006

CORAM: Walton J Acting President; Boland J; Backman J

CATCHWORDS: Appeal - Interlocutory applications - Notice of motion by respondents to re-open appeal proceedings on grounds that appellants breached confidentiality undertakings given to the Court - Application by appellants to strike out respondents motion on jurisdictional grounds - Whether appellants jurisdictional challenge should be heard as a threshold matter - Held that jurisdictional issue should be determined before consideration is given to application to re-open.

Hollingsworth v Commissioner of Police (2007) 160 IR 456 Nagle (T/as W D and J L Nagle & Sons) v Tilburg & Anor (1993) 51 IR 8 CASES CITED: Ove Arup Pty Ltd v WorkCover Authority (NSW) (Inspector Mansell) (2005) 141 IR 78 Valda June Kerrison v New South Wales Technical and Further Education Commission [2007] NSWIRComm 140 Virtue v New South Wales Department of Education and Training (1999) 92 IR 428