T D Preece & Co Pty Ltd v Industrial Court of New South Wales [2008] NSWCA 285

New South Wales Court of Appeal

CITATION: T D Preece & Co Pty Ltd v Industrial Court of New South Wales [2008] NSWCA 285

HEARING DATE(S): 10 July 2008

JUDGMENT DATE: 4 November 2008

JUDGMENT OF: Spigelman CJ at 1; Hodgson JA at 67; Basten JA at 70

DECISION: The summons should be dismissed with costs.

CATCHWORDS: INDUSTRIAL LAW – Unfair Contract – Finding of unfairness – Failure to identify terms of contract – Jurisdictional error – Proper approach to determining unfairness - PROCEDURE – Appeal to Full Bench – Finding of unfairness on basis different to trial judge – Jurisdiction of Full Bench – Procedural fairness - PROCEDURE – Powers of Full Bench on appeal – Industrial Relations Act 1996, s 106, s 191, s 192

Industrial Relations Act 1991 LEGISLATION CITED: Industrial Relations Act 1996 Supreme Court Act 1970 Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cth)

Alliance Motor Auctions Pty Ltd v Industrial Relations Commission (NSW) [2005] NSWCA 355; (2005) 146 IR 99 Coal & Allied Operations Pty Ltd v Australian Industrial Relations Commission [2000] HCA 47; (2000) 203 CLR 194 Ex parte Hebburn Ltd; Re Kearsley Shire Council (1947) 47 SR (NSW) 416 Fish v Solution 6 Holdings Ltd [2006] HCA 22; (2006) 225 CLR 180 Grygiel v Baine [2005] NSWCA 218 House v The King (1936) 55 CLR 499 CASES CITED: Murton v T D Preece & Co Pty Ltd [2006] NSWIRComm 367 Russell v Trustees of the Roman Catholic Church for the Archdiocese of Sydney [2007] NSWSC 104; (2007) 69 NSWLR 198 Russell v Trustees of the Roman Catholic Church for the Archdiocese of Sydney [2008] NSWCA 217 Sydney Water Corporation Ltd v Industrial Relations Commission (NSW) [2004] NSWCA 436; (2004) 61 NSWLR 661 T D Preece & Co Pty Ltd v Murton [2007] NSWIRComm 130; (2007) 164 IR 396 The King v Connell; Ex parte The Hetton Bellbird Collieries Ltd (1944) 69 CLR 407 Walker v Industrial Court (NSW) (1994) 53 IR 121