PROCEDURE – CIVIL PROCEEDINGS IN STATE AND TERRITORY COURTS – ENDING PROCEEDINGS EARLY – SUMMARY DISPOSAL – striking out application – striking out and/or dismissal of an Applicant’s claim pursuant to s 47 of the QCAT Act –
ASSIGNMENT OF LETTING AND CARETAKING SERVICES CONTRACTS – whether the Body Corporate committee was properly constituted to authorise the assignment of the contracts – whether the contracts purportedly transferred from one person to another should be declared to have no effect or is void
BODY CORPORATE AND COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT – COMPLEX DISPUTE – JURISDICTION – where original application a complex dispute within s 149B of the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997 (Qld)
Where a dispute about a contractual matter in section 149B of the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997 (Qld) is a complex dispute within the meaning of the Act – Where Section 229(2) of the Act specifically provides that the only remedy for a complex dispute is the resolution of the dispute by an order of a specialist adjudicator or an order of QCAT exercising the Tribunal’s original jurisdiction under the QCAT Act – Whether a claim for damages only falls within the Tribunal’s original jurisdiction under the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2009 (Qld)
Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2009 (Qld), s 3, s 47 Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997 (Qld), s 100 s 310 Body Corporate and Community Management (Accommodation Module) Regulation 2008 (Qld), s 120(1), s 190 Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 1999 (Qld), Rule 292 General Steel Industries Inc v Commissioner for Railways (NSW) [1964] HCA 69; (1964) 112 CLR 125 Dey v Victorian Railways Commissioners [1949] HCA 1; (1949) 78 CLR 62 Cox v Journeaux (No 2) [1935] HCA 48; (1935) 52 CLR 713 Shaw v State of New South Wales [2012] NSWCA 102 Brimson v Rocla Concrete Pipes Ltd [1982] 2 NSWLR 937 Agar v Hyde [2000] HCA 41; (2000) 201 CLR 552 Gray v Morris [2004] 2 Qd R 118 Coldham Fussell v Commissioner of Taxation [2011] QCA 45
Queensland University of Technology v Project Constructions (Aust) Pty Ltd (in liq) [2003] 1 Qd R 259; [2002] QCA 224 Rich v CGU Insurance Ltd (2005) 79 ALJR 856 Hickson- Jamieson v University of the Sunshine Coast & Ors [2020] QCAT Victorian Professional group Management Pty Ltd v Proprietors of Surfers Aquarius [1991] Qd R 487 Beck v Kerry M Ryan Pty Ltd [2019] QCAT 38 Felstead v Bundaberg Homes Pty Ltd [2016] QCAT 294 Murtagh v QBCC [2018] QCAT 258 Allure Apartments 2019 QBCCM Cmr 352
Dunlop v the Body Corporate for Port Douglas (20 February 2024)