TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT – extension of time – ss.365, 366, 604 Fair Work Act 2009 – appeal – Full Bench – Commission declined to grant extension of time to file general protections dismissal application – appellant filed application 43 days after 21 day time period – whether ‘exceptional circumstances’ to grant extension of time – Commission to take into account reasons for delay in determining ‘exceptional circumstances’ – Commission relied on Cheval Properties as authority appellant needed to provide a credible explanation for the entire period of delay – Full Bench found not a pre-condition to the grant of an extension of time that the applicant provide a credible explanation for the entire period of the delay – adoption of the decision rule in Cheval Properties amounted to an error of law – concluded that sufficient doubt as to warrant reconsideration on appeal – permission to appeal granted – appeal upheld – decision quashed – matter remitted to Harper-Greenwell C for rehearing. Appeal by Stogiannidis against decision of Platt C of 22 December 2017 [[2017] FWC 7013] Re: Victorian Frozen Foods Distributors P/L t/a Richmond Oysters
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