VISY BOARD PTY LTD & ANOR v AUTOMOTIVE, FOOD, METALS, ENGINEERING, PRINTING & KINDRED INDUSTRIES UNION & ORS [1999] NSWSC 733

New South Wales Supreme Court CITATION : VISY BOARD PTY LTD & ANOR v AUTOMOTIVE, FOOD, METALS, ENGINEERING, PRINTING & KINDRED INDUSTRIES UNION & ORS [1999] NSWSC 733 CURRENT JURISDICTION : Common Law Division FILE NUMBER(S) : 11677/99 HEARING DATE(S) : 15 - 16 July 1999 JUDGMENT DATE : 16 July 1999

Visy Board Pty Ltd (First Plaintiff) Visy Paper Pty Ltd (Second Plaintiff) PARTIES : Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing & Kindred Industries Union (First Defendant) Brian Henderson (Second Defendant) Basil King (Third Defendant) JUDGMENT OF : Dunford J

COUNSEL : Mr DP Robinson / Mr Hatcher (Plaintiffs) Mr S Crawshaw SC / Mr Warburton (First, Second & Third Defendants) SOLICITORS : Blake Dawson Waldron (Plaintiffs) Turner Freeman (First, Second & Third Defendants) CATCHWORDS : INJUNCTION - Ex parte application - Necessity for full disclosure - INJUNCTION - Discretion - Industrial dispute - Criminal & Tortious conduct - Concurrent application to Industrial Relations Commission in respect of industrial action - WORDS & PHRASES - Industrial action - Picketing. ACTS CITED : Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cth) Patrick Stevedores Operations Pty Ltd v Maritime Union of Australia & Ors (1998) 82 IR 237; Thomas A Edison Limited v Bullock (1912) 15 CLR 679; Town and Country Sport Resorts (Holdings) Pty Ltd & Ors v Partnership Pacific Limited (1988) 20 FCR 540; Bentley v Nelson [1963] WAR 89; Gilfillan v Gilfillan [1973] 6 SASR 330; Barneys Blu-Crete Pty Ltd v Australian Workers Union (1979) 43 FLR 457; CASES CITED : Bennett v Excelsior Land Investment & Building Company Limited (1893) 14 NSWR (Eq) 179; Harry M Miller Attractions Pty Ltd & Ors v Actors and Announcers Equity Association of Australia & Anor (1970) 1 NSWR 614; Slattery & Ors v Public Service Board [1893] 3 NSWLR 41; Mahony v Industrial Registrar of New South Wales [1984] 3 NSWLR 315; Australian Broadcasting Corporation v Australian Public Sector and Broadcasting Union & Ors (unreported, 18 March 1991, Kearney J); Australian Paper Limited v Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia (1998) 81 IR 15; Australian Builders Labourers Federal Union of Australia, Western Australian Branch v J Corp Pty Ltd (1993) 114 ALR 551. DECISION : Injuctions continued. Special Order as to costs.