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Plain-English guides to Australian law — bonds, tradies, tribunals, consumer rights, and more. Written so you can actually act on them.
Shop lease claims dismissed: licensing salon rooms is not a retail business, so QCAT had no power
A business that leased premises in a Southport shopping centre and licensed individual salon rooms to freelance hairdressers and beauty operators took its landlord to the tribunal over outgoings, a bank guarantee…
Read Guide →Shop tenant’s $338,000 road-closure claim fails and landlord wins $57,858 counterclaim (QCAT, 2026)
A laser clinic business leased a shop in a Brisbane shopping centre and later claimed the landlord's disclosure statement had failed to…
Read Guide →SAT decisions this week: builders and building defects, strata and body corporate (12 October to 18 October 2026)
2 SAT decisions from 12 October to 18 October 2026, in plain English.
Read Guide →NCAT decisions this week: builders and building defects, house rentals and bonds, other civil disputes (12 October to 18 October 2026)
3 NCAT decisions from 12 October to 18 October 2026, in plain English.
Read Guide →SAT decisions this week: builders and building defects, strata and body corporate (11 October to 17 October 2026)
2 SAT decisions from 11 October to 17 October 2026, in plain English.
Read Guide →NCAT decisions this week: builders and building defects, house rentals and bonds, other civil disputes (11 October to 17 October 2026)
3 NCAT decisions from 11 October to 17 October 2026, in plain English.
Read Guide →Balconies built without the 150mm cyclone step down ruled faulty; builder must rebuild them (SAT, 2026)
A home owner in Exmouth, Western Australia, complained that the builder who took her two-storey house to lock-up stage had built the…
Read Guide →Son who held power of attorney ordered to repay $21,420.87 to his father’s estate (VCAT, 2026)
A man used an enduring power of attorney to close his father's bank account and take $21,420.87 in cash, then threw away…
Read Guide →Social housing eviction over $138,000 in backdated rent set aside and sent back for rehearing (NCAT, 2026)
A long-term social housing tenant lost her rent subsidy, which was cancelled and backdated to 2011, leaving rent arrears assessed at $138,122.88,…
Read Guide →Appeals dismissed: defects were proved, but no clear repair scope meant no work order (NCAT, 2026)
An owners corporation proved several defects in the air-conditioning and ventilation work in its building, but the Tribunal refused to order the…
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