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FWC rejects "too high a bar" argument for representation

The FWC has rejected a construction of the statutory "effective representation" test argued by a dismissed employee seeking to have a lawyer appear for him in the Commission, because it would set the bar too high even for "experienced industrial advocates and lawyers".

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