Application by Bowker [2015] FWC 7887 (16 November 2015)

(https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2015FWC7887.htm#P41_2954) Commissioner of Australian Federal Police v Propend Finance Pty Ltd (1997) 188 CLR 501; Re Postal Delivery Officers Union (1999) 94 IR 380.

(https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2015FWC7887.htm#P44_3375) It is noted that the second and third category identified are often subsumed under the rubric of 'litigation privilege'.

(https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2015FWC7887.htm#P47_4655) [1979] FCA 33; (1979) 36 FLR 244.

(https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2015FWC7887.htm#P48_4792) Noting that at the time the sole purpose test prevailed but the categories of documents identified remain apposite; see for example Waterford v Cth [1987] HCA 25; (1987) 163 CLR 54 at 87 and Hartogen Energy Ltd (in liq) v Australian Gas Light Co [1992] FCA 322; (1992) 36 FCR 557 at 561.

(https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2015FWC7887.htm#P58_8397) [1979] FCA 33 at [5]; [1979] FCA 33; (1979) 36 FLR 244 at 245-246.

(https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2015FWC7887.htm#P61_8691) Ibid at [5]; at 246.

(https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2015FWC7887.htm#P64_9292) Pratt Holdings Pty Ltd v Commissioner of Taxation [2004] FCAFC 122; (2004) 136 FCR 357.

(https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2015FWC7887.htm#P65_9535) Ibid.

(https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2015FWC7887.htm#P66_9735) Ibid; Mitsubishi Electric Australia Pty Ltd v Victorian Work Cover Authority [2002] VSCA 59; (2002) 4 VR 332.

(https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2015FWC7887.htm#P73_11799) Noting that the Evidence Act applies to all proceedings in a federal court; that federal court is defined in the dictionary attaching to the Evidence Act as a including a person or body (other than a court or magistrate of a State or Territory) that, in performing a function or exercising a power under a law of the Commonwealth, is required to apply the laws of evidence and section 591 of the Act; and that the extended operation of certain provisions of the Evidence Act in s.5 does not include the client legal privilege provisions found in Division 1 of Part 3.10.

(https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2015FWC7887.htm#P82_13249) This is apparent from the letter of engagement sent by solicitors for DP World to Mr Gunzburg dated 3 June 2014.

(https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2015FWC7887.htm#P85_14436) See Annexures GM - 16, GM - 17 and GM-18 to the witness statement of Glenn McCluskey dated 22 May 2014 [sic].

(https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2015FWC7887.htm#P90_15134) Witness statement of Glenn McCluskey dated 22 May 2014 [sic] at [31 g)], Annexure GM-19.

(https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2015FWC7887.htm#P99_16706) Bartolo v Doutta Galla Aged Services Ltd [2014] FCCA 1517 at [82] ff. and the authorities cited therein.

(https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2015FWC7887.htm#P100_17112) Ibid at [84].

(https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2015FWC7887.htm#P105_19161) Commissioner of Taxation (Cth) v Pratt Holdings Pty Ltd [2005] FCA 1247 at [30(8)].

(https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2015FWC7887.htm#P110_20053) The Commissioner of Taxation of the Commonwealth of Australia v Pratt Holdings Pty Ltd [2015] FCA 1247 at [30 (3)].

(https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2015FWC7887.htm#P111_20292) Ibid.

(https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2015FWC7887.htm#P112_20459) Ibid at [30(4)].

(https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2015FWC7887.htm#P113_20659) Applicants' submissions - DP World claim of privilege at [22].

(https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2015FWC7887.htm#P116_20965) The Commissioner of Taxation of the Commonwealth of Australia v Pratt Holdings Pty Ltd [2015] FCA 1247 at [30 (5)] and the authorities referred to therein; see also Carnell v Mann [1998] FCA 1566; (1998) 89 FCR 247.

(https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2015FWC7887.htm#P127_22119) Witness statement of Glenn McCluskey dated 22 May 2014 [sic], GM-17 email dated 5 June 2014 at 2:11 pm.

(https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2015FWC7887.htm#P128_22374) Ibid, email date 5 June 2014 at 2:59 pm.

(https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2015FWC7887.htm#P129_22655) Ibid, email date 5 June 2014 at 6:41 pm.

(https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2015FWC7887.htm#P130_22893) Ibid, email dated 6 June 2014 at11:01 pm.

(https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2015FWC7887.htm#P134_23717) Witness statement of Glenn McCluskey dated 22 May 2014 [sic], GM-16.

(https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2015FWC7887.htm#P137_24893) cf. Brown v Bluescope Steel Limited [2005] AIRC 955.

(https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2015FWC7887.htm#P140_25503) Witness statement of Glenn McCluskey dated 22 May 2014 [sic] at [32].

(https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2015FWC7887.htm#P147_26942) [2015] FCA 51.

(https://www.fwc.gov.au/documents/decisionssigned/html/2015FWC7887.htm#P172_33001) Reply submissions of DP World regarding privileged documents at [20].

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