ANTI-BULLYING – costs – ss.604, 611 Fair Work Act 2009 – permission to appeal – Full Bench – original decision concerned application for order to stop bullying – applicants made allegations of bullying in relation to disagreement over management of Collie Chamber – applicants withdraw from proceedings due to apparent change in composition in Collie Chamber management – appellants filed costs application – Commission determined application not made without reasonable cause or filed vexatiously – appellants asserted costs decision in error on substantial number of grounds – permission to appeal generally granted where Full Bench concludes sufficient doubt so as to warrant reconsideration of matter or where injustice may result if permission not granted – jurisdictional error generally gives rise to grant of permission – where decision of discretionary nature appealable error must be established [House v King] – Full Bench found Commission referred to number of authorities to power to award costs which clearly established preconditions about which Commission must be satisfied before exercising discretion to award costs – Commission decision also informed by reference to established authorities in determining applicants had strong belief that applications were genuine and not made vexatiously – Full Bench not satisfied original decision attended by jurisdictional error or that it involved error in exercise of jurisdiction available to it – permission to appeal refused. Appeal by Churches and Ors against decision of Bull DP of 25 November 2015 [[2015] FWC 6620] Re: Jackson and Anor
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