SJP Formwork (NSW) Pty Limited v Workcover Authority of New South Wales [1999] NSWSC 941

New South Wales Supreme Court CITATION : SJP Formwork (NSW) Pty Limited v Workcover Authority of New South Wales [1999] NSWSC 941 CURRENT JURISDICTION : Administrative Law Division FILE NUMBER(S) : 30011/99 HEARING DATE(S) : 16-17 June 1999 JUDGMENT DATE : 17 September 1999

PARTIES : SJP Formwork (NSW) Pty Limited (ACN 003 957 391) (Plaintiff) Workcover Authority of New South Wales (Defendant) JUDGMENT OF : Dunford J

COUNSEL : BW Rayment QC / B De Buse (Plaintiff) RA Conti QC / J Griffiths (Defendant) SOLICITORS : Heaney Richardson & Nemes, Solicitors (Plaintiff) Blake Dawson Waldron, Solicitors (Defendant) CATCHWORDS : ADMINISTRATIVE LAW - workers compensation insurance premiums - assessment of appeal to Workcover Authority - grounds on which determination of Workcover Authority subject to judicial review; INSURANCE - workers compensation - assessment of premium - acquisition of business - gradual acquisition - wages and claims experience of former employer; WORDS & PHRASES - acquire, business, predecessor. ACTS CITED : Workers Compensation Act 1987, ss 168, 169, 170. Insurance Premiums Order 1994 Schedules 1, 4, 5. Buck v Bavone (1976) 135 CLR 110, Hope v Bathurst City Council (1980) 144 CLR 1, Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs v Respondent A and Ors (1995) 130 ALR 48, CASES CITED : Comcare Australia (Defence) v O'Dea (1997) 150 ALR 318, Allina Pty Limited v Commissioner of Taxation (1991) 28 FCR 203, Congreve v Inland Revenue Commissioners [1947] 1 All ER 168, Commissioner of Taxation v Murry [1998] HCA 42, (1998) 155 ALR 67. DECISION : See para 24.