GENERAL PROTECTIONS – extension of time – ss.365, 366, 604 Fair Work Act 2009 – permission to appeal – Full Bench – at first instance the Commission refused to allow a further period of time for the appellant to make a general protections dismissal dispute application – application made 13 days late – appellant’s grounds of appeal included that the decision contained several inconsistencies in detail, the Commission granted a significantly longer period to the respondent to raise matters not relevant to the extension of time issue, no opportunity given to respond to the matters raised, and the Commission should have accepted his medical condition provided an acceptable explanation for the delay – Full Bench not persuaded any of the grounds of appeal upon which the appellant relied raised an arguable case of error – complaints about the conduct of the hearing and the opportunity given to appellant by the Commission to respond to the matters raised by the respondent not made out – apparent the Commission was not satisfied that the medical evidence established any sufficient impediment to the appellant in making his application within the time prescribed – Full Bench did not consider the Commission’s conclusion was unreasonable, manifested any injustice, or was counter-intuitive – not persuaded the appeal raised issues of importance and general application, or that there is a diversity of decisions at first instance so that guidance from a Full Bench was required – further basis on which permission to appeal should be refused – appellant’s general protections dismissal dispute application prohibited by s.725 of the FW Act – appellant also made complaint to the AntiDiscrimination Board of New South Wales – application had not been discontinued nor failed for want of jurisdiction – Full Bench did not consider there was any basis that would justify the grant of permission to appeal in the public interest or otherwise – permission to appeal refused. Appeal by Storey against decision of Lawrence DP of 25 November 2016 [[2016] FWC 8464] Re: Aristocrat Leisure Limited t/a Aristocrat Technologies Australia
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