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Neighbour’s objection to a 10-home development dismissed as not a planning issue (VCAT, 2026)
An adjoining owner asked VCAT to review a council decision to grant a permit for 10 homes next door, saying the development had cost them their tenants, made the property hard to…
Read Guide →Appeal refused: lot owner keeps only 51% of her costs in long-running strata repair fight (NCAT, 2026)
A lot owner won damages and two work orders against her owners corporation over a leaking bathroom, but the Tribunal gave her…
Read Guide →Landlord won its appeal but costs stay reserved until the retail lease case is finally decided (NCAT, 2026)
A landlord succeeded in overturning orders that reinstated a demolished shopping-centre kiosk lease, because those orders were made on the papers as…
Read Guide →Home owners’ appeal dismissed after $438,000 refund claim lacked evidence of actual loss (NCAT, 2026)
Home owners who could not get an occupation certificate asked the Tribunal to order the builder to refund the entire $438,223.74 cost…
Read Guide →Contempt referral against NSW Police dismissed: no clear order and no admissible evidence (NCAT, 2026)
A man asked NCAT to refer the Commissioner of Police, NSW Police Force and a number of named officers and others to…
Read Guide →Appeal allowed: tribunal set aside a $15,500 order without letting the other side be heard (NCAT, 2026)
A company that bought a gate won orders for a $15,500 refund at a hearing the installer did not attend, and the…
Read Guide →Appeal allowed: tenant’s $13,400 claim for hotel and travel costs sent back for re-hearing (NCAT, 2026)
A social housing tenant in inner Sydney moved out of her unit for months because of cockroaches, electrical problems and mould, and…
Read Guide →Tenants who left a fixed-term lease early ordered to pay $590.06 in reletting and advertising costs (NTCAT, 2026)
Tenants moved out of a Darwin-area house about six months into a 12-month lease, and the landlord claimed the cost of advertising…
Read Guide →Tribunal confirms authority’s decision not to prosecute clearing that breached a permit (NTCAT, 2026)
A community group complained that bushland at Lee Point was cleared in breach of a development permit, and asked the tribunal to…
Read Guide →Council rates debt stands but costs order removed after payments found applied in wrong order (NTCAT, 2026)
A council took a ratepayer to the tribunal for unpaid rates and won an order for $3,325.20 plus costs, even though it…
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