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Linen hire supplier awarded $661.21 after its $325 debt collection fee was refused (VCAT, 2026)
A commercial linen hire supplier chased a company for six unpaid invoices plus a $325 debt collection charge, after the company had already paid $1,000 off the account. VCAT ordered the company…
Read Guide →QCAT decisions this week: house rentals and bonds, other civil disputes, builders and building defects (15 October to 21 October 2026)
8 QCAT decisions from 15 October to 21 October 2026, in plain English.
Read Guide →NCAT decisions this week: builders and building defects, motor vehicle dealers, house rentals and bonds (15 October to 21 October 2026)
4 NCAT decisions from 15 October to 21 October 2026, in plain English.
Read Guide →Landlord allowed to refuse a tenant’s cat after the body corporate said no (TASCAT, 2026)
A tenant in a strata title unit asked her landlord for written consent to keep a rescue kitten, and the landlord refused.…
Read Guide →Lot owner ordered to pay costs from the day a fatal jurisdiction problem was raised (TASCAT, 2026)
A lot owner appealed a strata title decision to TASCAT, but the appeal was doomed from the start because the original application…
Read Guide →Landlord’s refusal of a pet dog found unreasonable, tenants allowed a dog under 15kg (TASCAT, 2026)
Tenants asked their landlords for written consent to get a small dog, and the landlords refused because they feared damage to an…
Read Guide →Farm owner wins appeal: permit for 34 assisted housing units inside a working farm set aside (TASCAT, 2026)
A social housing provider was granted a council permit to build 34 assisted housing units on a parcel of land sitting entirely…
Read Guide →Pool builder’s appeal fails: $75,405 award over a retaining wall that would not last stands (NCAT, 2026)
A home owner hired a pool company to install an in-ground swimming pool, and the tribunal found the work breached the statutory…
Read Guide →Consumer ordered to pay insurer’s costs after appeal to a tribunal with no power to hear it (NCAT, 2026)
A man appealed after the Tribunal found it had no power to decide his dispute with a life insurer, because the dispute…
Read Guide →Home owner’s appeal fails: builder’s director and supervisor stay out of her defects case (NCAT, 2026)
A home owner suing her builder at NCAT over a $1,431,823.92 house contract tried to add the builder's director and site supervisor…
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