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Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union v Australian Building and Construction Commissioner [2016] FCAFC 184

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STATUTORY INTERPRETATION - Remedies for contravention of statutory prohibitions - Civil proceeding for penalty - Maximum penalties prescribed - Additional power to make any order considered appropriate - Whether power to order another person not to indemnify respondent against his or her liability to pay penalty. INDUSTRIAL LAW - Penalty for contravention of statutory prohibition - Whether court has power to order another person not to indemnify respondent against his or her liability to pay penalty. PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE - Natural justice - Financial report of respondent tendered for limited purposes including demonstration of its asset base and revenue - Whether report could be used for another purpose not stated at trial - Whether respondent denied natural justice by extended use of report without warning. PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE - Natural justice - In fixing penalty for contravention of statute, whether primary judge entitled to infer, from previous proceedings, the existence of a "strategy" by respondent to conduct litigation in a certain way - Whether respondent entitled to be warned of the possibility of such an inference. PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE - Determination of penalties - Whether primary judge's discretion miscarried.

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