Adlam v Bauer

[1999] FCA 1504

FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

Adlam v Bauer [1999] FCA 1504

INDUSTRIAL LAW – union rules – whether particular members of the union’s State Council who sat to hear and determine a charge laid against the State Secretary were invincibly biased – whether the proceedings before State Council miscarried.

Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cth), s209

Australian Workers’ Union and Ors v Bowen (No 2) (1948) 77 CLR 601, applied

Dickason v Edwards [1910] 10 CLR 243, applied

Cains v Jenkins (1979) 42 FLR 188, distinguished

Thompson v Hodder (1989) 31 IR 300, distinguished

CAROLYN JENNIFER ADLAM v P BAUER and OTHERS

SG 141 OF 1998

MARSHALL J

MELBOURNE (HEARD IN ADELAIDE)

3 NOVEMBER 1999

IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
SOUTH AUSTRALIA DISTRICT REGISTRY	SG 141 OF 1998

BETWEEN:	CAROLYN JENNIFER ADLAM Applicant
AND:	P BAUER and OTHERS (as per attached schedule) Respondent
JUDGE:	MARSHALL J
DATE OF ORDER:	3 NOVEMBER 1999
WHERE MADE:	MELBOURNE (HEARD IN ADELAIDE)

THE COURT ORDERS THAT:

The applicant be refused leave to amend the rule to show cause.

Note:    Settlement and entry of orders is dealt with in Order 36 of the Federal Court Rules.

SCHEDULE

P Bauer	First Respondent
S Biddle	Second Respondent
D Cridland	Third Respondent
I Curry	Fourth Respondent
H Early	Fifth Respondent
J Gresty	Sixth Respondent
P McMahon	Seventh Respondent
T Murray	Eighth Respondent
A Nicholson	Ninth Respondent
P Noack	Tenth Respondent
R Parham	Eleventh Respondent
D Sibbald	Twelfth Respondent
T Taylor	Thirteenth Respondent
J Watson	Fourteenth Respondent
J Camillo	Fifteenth Respondent
J Gee	Sixteenth Respondent
M Boddey	Seventeenth Respondent
D Bosch	Eighteenth Respondent
R Brown	Nineteenth Respondent
L Clark	Twentieth Respondent
C Fenney	Twenty-first Respondent
S Forrestal	Twenty-second Respondent
P Fox	Twenty-third Respondent
P Gunner	Twenty-fourth Respondent
D Hamp	Twenty-fifth Respondent
J High	Twenty-sixth Respondent
R Jovic	Twenty-seventh Respondent
C Laverty	Twenty-eighth Respondent
C Larner	Twenty-ninth Respondent
A Matthews	Thirtieth Respondent
J McKay	Thirty-first Respondent
C McKechnie	Thirty-second Respondent
I Mortimer	Thirty-third Respondent
M Palmer	Thirty-fourth Respondent
J Short	Thirty-fifth Respondent
A Sibbons	Thirty-sixth Respondent
M Tarnowski	Thirty-seventh Respondent
N Taylor	Thirty-eighth Respondent
D Varney	Thirty-ninth Respondent
P Waldron	Fortieth Respondent
D Cameron	Forty-first Respondent
D Goodger	Forty-second Respondent
D Oliver	Forty-third Respondent
N Marshall	Forty-fourth Respondent
J Royce	Forty-fifth Respondent
P Johnson	Forty-sixth Respondent
M McGill	Forty-seventh Respondent
P Bastian	Forty-eighth Respondent
C Johnston	Forty-ninth Respondent
F Fairley	Fiftieth Respondent
M Nicolaides	Fifty-first Respondent
D Harrison	Fifty-second Respondent
R Keating	Fifty-third Respondent
B Mowbray	Fifty-fourth Respondent
K Peckham	Fifty-fifth Respondent
J Sharp-Collett	Fifty-sixth Respondent
G Adams	Fifty-seventh Respondent
I Jones	Fifty-eighth Respondent
D Smith	Fifty-ninth Respondent
N Treharne	Sixtieth Respondent
M Brown	Sixty-first Respondent
J Reid	Sixty-second Respondent
E Snell	Sixty-third Respondent
S Walsh	Sixty-fourth Respondent
J Roe	Sixty-fifth Respondent

IN THE FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA
SOUTH AUSTRALIA DISTRICT REGISTRY	SG 141 OF 1998

BETWEEN:	CAROLYN JENNIFER ADLAM Applicant
AND:	P BAUER and OTHERS (as per attached schedule) Respondent

JUDGE:	MARSHALL J
DATE:	3 NOVEMBER 1999
PLACE:	MELBOURNE (HEARD IN ADELAIDE)

REASONS FOR JUDGMENT

1. The proceeding…