Australian basketball legend Shane Heal has lost most of his lawsuit against the Sydney Flames, with a judge finding that he was suspended as the WNBL club’s head coach because of complaints made by players.
Australian basketball legend Shane Heal has lost most of his legal showdown with WNBL club the Sydney Flames after he was suspended as head coach.
He launched the lawsuit, alleging breaches of employment law, after he was suspended from his role as the club’s head coach in January last year. The Flames suspended Mr Heal and commissioned an independent investigation into the allegations before the matter spilt into the Federal Court during a hearing last year.Heal had claimed that he was suspended after he exercised his workplace rights and the complaints were used as a “smokescreen”, the court was told.
“Contrary to the case advanced by Mr Heal, I accept the decision to suspend Mr Heal as head coach of the team was taken because of the complaints that the players had made to senior management of the Sydney Flames about him, not because of his exercise of any alleged workplace rights,” Justice Halley said.
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