These reasons relate to a determination as to whether the Tribunal has jurisdiction to hear and determine this application. This is an application made by the applicant on 20 December 2016 seeking termination of a residential tenancy agreement and payment of outstanding rent. On 12 January 2017 the Tribunal adjourned the matter to a hearing to determine whether the Tribunal has jurisdiction. More precisely, this decision on deals with whether the Tribunal ceases to have jurisdiction pursuant to Clause 5(7) of Schedule 4 of the Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2013 (NCAT Act). The parties agreed that was the only matter before the Tribunal at this stage. The parties were given an opportunity to exchange submissions. Counsel for each party also appeared in person and each made some further brief submissions in relation to the matter. Both the written and oral submissions of the parties have been considered in determining the matter.
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Background to the Matter
The application relates to a property at Galston and the applicant in the matter alleges that the parties entered into a residential tenancy agreement on 17 February 2014. The applicant is the registered proprietor of the property. The respondent denies the existence of the residential tenancy agreement and alleges that the signature on the agreement is not his. The respondent alleges that he is the beneficial owner of the property.
The applicant has previously commenced three applications before the Tribunal with respect to the same property and the same alleged residential tenancy agreement.
The first application was commenced on 24 April 2016 (RT16/19949) (first application).
A second application was commenced by the applicant on 18 June 2016 (RT16/28340) (second application).
On 1 November 2016, the applicant withdrew both the First and Second applications and the Tribunal dismissed the matters.
A third application was made on by the applicant on 17 November 2016 (RT 16/49008) (third application). That application was also withdrawn and dismissed on 6 December 2016.
The respondent contends that the Tribunal does not have jurisdiction to hear the claim because of Clause 5(7) of Schedule 4 of the NCAT Act that clause provides:
(7) Effect of pending court proceedings on Tribunal
If, at the time when an application is made to the Tribunal for the exercise of a Division function, an issue arising under the application was the subject of a dispute in proceedings pending before a court, the Tribunal, on becoming aware of those proceedings, ceases to have jurisdiction to hear or determine the issue.
On 15 June 2016, the respondent (and his wife) commenced proceedings in the NSW Supreme Court (the Supreme Court proceedings) against the applicant (and others) alleging that the applicant holds the property on trust for the applicant.
On 8 July 2016, the respondent filed a motion in the Supreme Court proceedings seeking that the applicant be restrained from conducting, and the Tribunal be restrained from hearing, the first and second applications. On 12 August 2016, Darke J heard the Motion and delivered judgment on 15 August 2016.
The Supreme Court proceedings remain on foot. The applicant makes submissions that at the time of hearing of this application, the applicant and others in the Supreme Court proceedings are yet to file a defence
The respondent has filed an amended statement of claim in the Supreme Court Proceedings which has been provided to the Tribunal.
In effect, the respondent and his wife are alleging in the Supreme Court proceedings that they have beneficial ownership of the property resulting from payments made to the applicant. The applicant alleges that the payments are pursuant to a residential tenancy agreement and are payments of rent.
The respondent has previously made an application in the Supreme Court to restrain the applicant from making an application and staying earlier NCAT proceedings.
The interlocutory decision of His Honour was considering whether to exercise the powers of the Supreme Court to stay the proceedings in order to avoid an issue estoppel. The applicant subsequently withdrew the Tribunal applications to which the interlocutory decision related.
The Appeal Panel case of Gennacker Pty Ltd v Bennett [2016] NSWCATAP 10 considered Clause 5(7) and stated the following:
The effect of the clause is to remove the jurisdiction of the Tribunal jurisdiction to determine an issue which is the subject of a dispute in proceedings pending before a court at the time an application was made. This occurs at the point in time the Tribunal becomes aware of the other proceedings. However the clause does not remove from the Tribunal jurisdiction to otherwise determine the proceedings before the Tribunal in which the issue arises. Rather, it operates to remove possible inconsistent determinations inter partes where the same issues are being litigated concurrently in the Tribunal and a court: see Cohen-Hallaleh v Cyril Rosenbaum Synagogue Pty Ltd [2003] NSWSC 395 per Barrett J (as he then was) at [37].
The Tribunal has before it the transcript of the reasons given by Darke J on 15 August 2016 in relation to the respondent's motion to stay or restrain the applicant from bring proceedings in NCAT. Below is a relevant excerpt of the reasons, it is useful to reproduce it at some length:
These are the Court's reasons for its decision on the plaintiffs' Notice of Motion filed on 8 July 2016….
On 15 June 2016 the plaintiffs, Mark and Lorraine Tonna, commenced proceedings in this Court against Renuka Mendonca and two other defendants. The claim against Renuka Mendonca (who is referred to as Dr Mendonca) is that she holds her interest as registered proprietor of a property in Galston on trust for the plaintiffs. The trust is said to be either a constructive trust or a resulting trust.
The trust claim may be summarised as follows: In December 2013 the plaintiffs entered into a contract to purchase the Galston property for $1.45 million. They paid a deposit of $145,000. The plaintiffs thereafter encountered difficulties in obtaining finance to complete the purchase. The second defendant, who is an accountant and Dr Mendonca's husband, was involved in the attempts to obtain finance. The plaintiffs allege that in January 2014 an agreement was reached whereby Dr Mendonca would be substituted as the purchaser, obtain mortgage finance from the ANZ Bank, and become the registered proprietor. Under the agreement the plaintiffs would pay the expenses of the purchase including stamp duty and make the mortgage payments to the Bank. Dr Mendonca would hold her title on trust for the plaintiffs and would transfer title to the plaintiffs once the plaintiffs had completed the sale of a property they owned at Schofields. The plaintiffs allege that they paid the expenses of the purchase and between February 2014 and April 2015 made payments into an account held by Dr Mendonca towards the mortgage. The sale of the Schofields property was completed in April 2015. The plaintiffs allege that they requested that title to the Galston property be transferred to them but Dr Mendonca has refused to do so.
On 28 April 2016 Dr Mendonca lodged an application in the Consumer and Commercial Division of the New South Wales Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT) against Mr Tonna. The application was made pursuant to the Residential Tenancies Act 2010. Orders were sought for the termination of an alleged residential tenancy agreement between Dr Mendonca and Mr Tonna in respect of the Galston property. It is alleged that rent has not been paid from May 2015. A claim is made for arrears of rent. Mr Tonna disputes that he ever entered into a residential tenancy agreement with Dr Mendonca. A copy of such an agreement, apparently bearing the signatures of Dr Mendonca and Mr Tonna and dated 17 February 2014, has been produced by Dr Mendonca. Mr Tonna denies that he entered into or signed such an agreement. Dr Mendonca lodged a further application in NCAT against Mr Tonna on 18 June 2016 in which the claims for relief in respect of the alleged residential tenancy agreement have been amended and expanded in scope.
It appears that neither of the plaintiffs is in occupation of the Galston property.
On 8 July 2016 the plaintiffs filed a Notice of Motion seeking an injunction against Dr Mendonca, effectively restraining her from proceeding with her applications in NCAT. In the alternative, an order was sought restraining NCAT from determining those applications.
NCAT was not made a party to the proceedings or the motion, although a letter was sent by the plaintiffs' solicitors to NCAT at Penrith on the 8 August 2016 enclosing the notice of motion and three affidavits which had been served in relation to it. The letter invited NCAT to appear on the hearing of the motion should it wish to do so. It seems that no response to the letter has been received.
The NCAT proceedings came before a Tribunal Member on 15 June 2016. On that occasion Mr Tonna appeared in his own interests and he made an application for leave to be legally represented. This was refused. Mr Tonna made an application for a stay of the proceedings in light of the commencement on that day of the proceedings in this Court. That application was also refused. The Tribunal Member referred to clause 5 of Schedule 4 to the Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2013 (the NCAT Act).
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The plaintiffs, in support of the injunctive relief claimed in their Notice of Motion, invoked the power conferred by s 23 of the Supreme Court Act 1970 as well as the inherent power of the Court to protect the integrity of the Court's processes once they have been set in motion. I was referred to statements made in the joint majority judgment of the High Court in CSR Limited v Cigna Insurance Australia Limited (1997) 189 CLR 345 especially at 391-392 where their Honours said:
"The counterpart of a court's power to prevent its processes being abused is its power to protect the integrity of those processes once set in motion. And in some cases, it is that counterpart power of protection that authorises the grant of anti-suit injunctions. Thus, for example, if "an estate is being administered ... or a petition in bankruptcy has been presented ... or winding up proceedings have been commenced ... an injunction [may be] granted to restrain a person from seeking, by foreign proceedings, to obtain the sole benefit of certain foreign assets". Similarly, as Gummow J pointed out in National Mutual Holdings Pty Ltd v The Sentry Corporation, a court may grant an injunction to restrain a person from commencing or continuing foreign proceedings if they, the foreign proceedings, interfere with or have a tendency to interfere with proceedings pending in that court.
The inherent power to grant anti-suit injunctions is not confined to the examples just given. As with other aspects of that power, it is not to be restricted to defined and closed categories. Rather, it is to be exercised when the administration of justice so demands or, in the context of anti-suit injunctions, when necessary for the protection of the court's own proceedings or processes.
Quite apart from the inherent power of a court to protect its own processes, a court may, in the exercise of the power deriving from the Chancery Court, make orders in restraint of unconscionable conduct or the unconscientious exercise of legal rights. If the bringing of legal proceedings involves unconscionable conduct or the unconscientious exercise of a legal right, an injunction may be granted by a court in the exercise of its equitable jurisdiction in restraint of those proceedings no matter where they are brought."
Their Honours continued at p 393:
"One well established category of case in which an injunction may be granted in the exercise of equitable jurisdiction is that involving proceedings in another court, including in a foreign court, which are, according to the principles of equity, vexatious or oppressive."
The plaintiffs submitted that it was appropriate to grant injunctive relief in this case primarily because of a possibility that issue estoppels might arise from the determination of the NCAT proceedings and that such estoppels could prejudice the plaintiffs in the prosecution of their claims in this Court. In particular, the concern was expressed that an issue estoppel might arise in relation to the characterisation of the payments made by the plaintiffs to Dr Mendonca in the period from about February 2014 to April 2015.
The plaintiffs contend that these payments were made in relation to the ANZ Bank mortgage as part of the agreement they assert was made in January 2014. It is expected that Dr Mendonca will contend that the payments were in the nature of rent pursuant to the residential tenancy agreement she asserts.
It may be accepted that NCAT might make findings as to the character of those payments. It may also be accepted that findings made by NCAT are capable of giving rise to issue estoppels (see Administration of Papua and New Guinea v Guba (1973) 130 GLR 353 at 453 cited in Kuligowski v Metrobus (2004) 220 GLR 363 at [221). However, it is difficult to see how such findings might in this case give rise to any issue estoppel that would preclude or significantly prejudice the plaintiffs in the pursuit of their trust claim. The principal issue to be determined in the NCAT proceedings is whether the alleged residential tenancy agreement came into existence. That will depend upon whether the agreement was in fact executed by the parties, as alleged by Dr Mendonca, or not, as alleged by Mr Tonna. It is unlikely that any findings as to the character of payments made subsequent to the agreement allegedly made will be matters that are legally indispensable to any conclusion as to the existence or otherwise of such agreement. In Blair v Curran (1939) 62 GLR 464 Dixon J stated at 531-532:
"A judicial determination directly involving an issue of fact or of law disposes once for all of the issue, so that it cannot afterwards be raised between the same parties or their privies. The estoppel covers only those matters which the prior judgment, decree or order necessarily established as the legal foundation or justification of its conclusion, whether that conclusion is that a money sum be recovered or that the doing of an act be commanded or be restrained or that rights be declared.
Nothing but what is legally indispensable to the conclusion is thus finally closed or precluded.
In the phraseology of Lord Shaw, "a fact fundamental to the decision arrived at" in the former proceedings and "the legal quality of the fact" must be taken as finally and conclusively established (Hoystead v. Commissioner of Taxation). But matters of law or fact which are subsidiary or collateral are not covered by the estoppal. Findings, however deliberate and formal, which concern only evidentiary facts and not ultimate facts forming the very title to rights give rise to no preclusion."
Moreover, a conclusion as to the existence or otherwise of a residential tenancy agreement would not give rise to an issue estoppal that would preclude the plaintiffs from later asserting the existence of the alleged trust. There is no necessary inconsistency between a residential tenancy agreement between Dr Mendonca as registered proprietor of the property and Mr Tanna, and Dr Mendonca holding her registered proprietorship of the property subject to equitable obligations in favour of Mr and Mrs Tonna.
Further, it is no part of the function of NCAT, when dealing with the claim under the Residential Tenancies Act, to make any determination as to whether Dr Mendonca holds her title to the property subject to any trust.
In any event, I do not think that the possibility of issue estoppels arising from the decision of NCAT is itself sufficient to warrant injunctive relief to prevent the NCAT proceedings from continuing pending the determination of the proceedings in this Court. The applicable statutory regime envisages that NCAT will hear and determine the issues that arise under applications made to it pursuant to the Residential Tenancies Act; and where those issues are not the subject of a dispute in proceedings pending in a court at the time the application is made, a court generally has no jurisdiction to hear and determine such issues (see clause 5 of Schedule 4 to the NCAT Act). That is the position in relation to the application made by Dr Mendonca on 28 April 2016. The regime must be taken to have been established in the knowledge that issue estoppels might arise from findings of NCAT and that issues determined by NCAT in a particular case might not encompass all of the issues in dispute between the parties.
There is no suggestion that Dr Mendonca's application under the
Residential Tenancies Act was inappropriately brought in NCAT. Further, Dr Mendonca sought to invoke the jurisdiction of NCAT at a time when no relevant proceedings were pending in this or any other court.
I do not think that the commencement of the NCAT proceedings or the continuation of the proceedings should be regarded as relevantly vexatious or oppressive, or unconscionable.
In my opinion the circumstances of this case do not justify, in the interests of the administration of justice or for the protection of this Court's processes, the injunctive relief sought by the plaintiffs.
In addition, insofar as NCAT itself is sought to be restrained, I do not think that such relief should be granted without NCAT being properly joined as a party.
For the above reasons the plaintiffs' Notice of Motion filed on 8 July 2016
will be dismissed. The plaintiffs must pay Dr Mendonca's costs of the motion.
The Court will so order.
In the application for this matter the applicant relevantly states under "reasons for the order"
"On or about 31 January 2014, the Applicant executed an agreement to lease the property to the Respondent commencing on 17 February 2014 with a rent amount of $2614.49 per fortnight (Residential Tenancy Agreement).
From about 3 September 2014, the property has been subleased by the Respondent to a third party, Peter Nielson. Mr Nielson has occupied the Property since 3 September 2014….
The Applicant has arranged for the service of a Notice to Terminate Tenancy Agreement on the Respondent on 1 December 2016 requiring the Respondent to deliver up vacant possession of the premises on 19 December 2016. (the Notice). The Respondent has not complied with the notice.
The respondent makes submissions that clause 5(7) of Schedule 4 of the Act requires that only "an issue" need arise. They make submissions this is different from what Darke J needed to find, which was whether a principal issue could arise which could give rise to an issue estoppel. The respondent makes submissions that in both the Supreme Court proceedings and in this application there is a characterisation of payments made by him to the applicant which is "an issue" for the purposes of clause 5(7).
The issue which is said to arise in both the NCAT and the Supreme Court proceedings is whether the payments that were made by the respondent to the applicant were rent amounts being paid pursuant to a residential tenancy agreement or were payments being made under an arrangement between the parties towards the mortgage. It is entirely, possible that in the end it might be found by the Tribunal that a residential tenancy agreement existed between the parties and also by the Supreme Court that a trust existed between the parties. Those are two separate issues. However, the Tribunal finds that there is an issue arising in the application before it, which is also the subject of a dispute in proceedings pending before the Supreme Court. That issue is nature of the payments that were made.
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Findings
Clause 5 (7) was considered in the case of Steak Plains Olive Farm Pty Ltd v Australian Executor Trustees Limited [2015] NSWSC 289. In that case the applicant asserted that the same issue did not arise in both proceedings. They relied on the fact that only the Supreme Court had jurisdiction to grant the equitable remedies sought by way of relief against forfeiture. They stated that in that case no issue arose under the application made by the respondent in the Tribunal as to whether the applicant was entitled to equitable relief against forfeiture, in relation those submissions White J stated in his reasons:
I think this is too narrow an approach to the definition of the relevant issue. I accept that if the issue is characterised as being whether SPOF is entitled to equitable relief against forfeiture, that is a different issue from the issue that arises under AET's application in the Tribunal. On the other hand, if the issue is characterised as being whether an order for possession should be made in favour of AET if it establishes the alleged breaches, then that is the same issue as that which arises in the Supreme Court. For the reasons previously given, the Tribunal has power to determine whether an order for possession should not be made on the ground that SPOF is entitled to relief against forfeiture of the lease and the Tribunal could give appropriate statutory relief to give effect to a determination of that question. Whether SPOF should now be permitted to raise that ground of defence and to seek statutory relief having regard to the course taken to date in the Tribunal is a different question and would be a matter for the Tribunal to decide if an application were made by SPOF in the Tribunal. But the issue of whether AET should be given possession of the farm arises directly from the terms of its application, irrespective of the course taken by SPOF in the Tribunal.
In Cohen-Hallaleh v Cyril Rosenbaum Synagogue Pty Ltd Barrett J said (at [38]) that the purpose of the relevant provisions is to avoid the risk of concurrent findings by the Tribunal and a court with respect to a particular issue. This was approved by Sackville AJA in Advance Earthmovers Pty Ltd v Fubew Pty Ltd at [108]. The characterisation of the issue should be made with that statutory purpose in mind. That purpose would not be advanced by the adoption of a narrow characterisation of the issue as being whether SPOF is entitled to equitable relief against forfeiture. In furthering the statutory purpose of clause 5, Parliament has provided, in effect, that if an issue arising under the application can be dealt with either by a court or the Tribunal, the issue should be determined by the court or tribunal in which proceedings are first commenced.
For these reasons I conclude that by reason of clause 5(3) of Schedule 4 to the Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act this Court does not have jurisdiction to determine the issue of whether AET should or should not be given possession of the property. The claims for relief in paras 1, 2 and 3 of the "Relief Claimed" in the statement of claim and paras 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the summons are all directed to that issue. Those claims for relief should be dismissed.
In the case of McEvoy v McEvoy [2012] NSWSC 1494, the underlying issue related to the plaintiffs entitlement to a half interest in a property and proceedings relating to a residential tenancy agreement between the parties in the former CTTT. In relation to the CTTT matter which was on appeal to the Supreme Court, Pembroke J stated:
I earlier mentioned that the decision of the CTTT was flawed and should be set aside. That is because the Member who constituted the tribunal declined to embark on an enquiry as to the true nature of the plaintiffs' interest in the Jamberoo land. He wrongly believed that he was not able to determine the question of whether there was a trust or whether the plaintiffs had an equitable interest in the land. But these were essential prerequisites to a finding as to whether or not a relationship of landlord and tenant existed. In addition, the transcript of the proceedings reveals that the tribunal acted contrary to the requirements of natural justice by its refusal to accept material evidence and submissions from Mr Mazoudier, who was the plaintiffs' representative. The grounds for allowing the appeal and setting aside the decision of the CTTT are ample.
Clause 5(7) requires that when "an issue" arises and on the Tribunal "becoming aware of the other proceedings" then the Tribunal "ceases to have jurisdiction to hear or determine the issue." The Supreme Court when it previously considered the motion to stay previous NCAT proceedings was deciding the issue on a basis different to clause 5(7). The Supreme Court was considering whether findings in relation to the payments might give rise to any issue estoppel that would preclude or significantly prejudice the plaintiffs in the pursuit of their trust claim. The Supreme Court found that it was "unlikely that any findings as to the character of payments made subsequent to the agreement allegedly made will be matters that are legally indispensable to any conclusion as to the existence or otherwise of such agreement," and that remains true. The payments in themselves will not establish whether a residential tenancy agreement exists or a trust exists. However the Tribunal finds that the characterisation of the payments will be relevant to determining the accounting of rent and whether any money is outstanding pursuant to the residential tenancy agreement. Therespondent states those very same payments are actually mortgage repayments as part of the agreement to hold the property on trust as is what is being pleaded in the Supreme Court proceedings. The Tribunal finds that is an issue arising in both this matter and the Supreme Court proceedings.
Having found that there is an issue which is the subject of a dispute in the other proceedings, the Tribunal must also consider whether it can proceed with any other part of the application. The characterisation of the payments will be fundamental to determining whether rent is outstanding and consequently whether a termination order for non-payment of rent can be made.
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Tribunal has previously refused a stay on the same grounds
The applicant relies on a previous decision of the Tribunal in which it refused a stay on allegedly the same grounds. They say that the Tribunal has already decided the question in relation to jurisdiction with respect to the Second Application in relevantly identical circumstances. The Second Application was after the commencement of the Supreme Court Proceedings and is relevantly identical to the current application. The respondent had sought a stay in that application on the basis that the Tribunal had no jurisdiction under cl 3 as there were Supreme Court proceedings on foot. On 4 July 2016, the Tribunal refused to stay either application.
The applicant makes submissions that the current circumstances are identical and that the Tribunal already rejected that argument in respect of the Second Application. No appeal of the Tribunal's decision has been made by the respondent and the application makes submissions that this application for dismissal is on the same ground and is effectively an attempt to re-litigate a question that had already been determined.
The Tribunal is not satisfied on the submissions and documents before it that a stay was ever refused by the Tribunal in the Second Application (Matter RT 16/28340) on the basis of clause 5. It is not apparent from the Tribunal's notice of decision or directions that it had turned its mind to the operation of clause (5)(7) of Schedule 4 of the Act. No such reasons have been provided and the Tribunal is not satisfied that is a basis to prevent it from deciding the clause 5(7) issue in this case.
It should also be noted that the application for outstanding rent is for an amount of $30,000. It would appear that this may be beyond the jurisdictional limit of $15,000 of the Tribunal. While the Tribunal makes no findings in relation to that jurisdictional point, The Tribunal raises it for the parties to consider how this should the matter proceed in the future.
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Orders
The respondent was seeking dismissal of the matter. Clause 5(7) only states that the Tribunal "ceases to have jurisdiction to hear or determine the issue", not the proceedings. Accordingly, the Tribunal is not satisfied to simply dismiss the entire proceedings. It is noted that in Steak Plains Olive Farm Pty Ltd, White J only stayed the proceedings until determination of the Tribunal matter. Similarly in this case, the Tribunal will stay the proceedings until it makes further orders or the Supreme Court matter is finalised. It is noted that Darke J noted in his decision that 'it seems that only NCAT has jurisdiction to determine the issues arising in the proceedings.' This may be a reference to the termination orders being sought by the applicant.
Cl 6 of schedule 4 of the NCAT Act relates to a transfer of proceedings to by the Tribunal and relevantly states:
(1) If the parties in any proceedings for the exercise of a Division function so agree, or if the Tribunal of its own motion or on the application of a party so directs, the proceedings are:
(a) to be transferred to a court (in accordance with the rules of that court) that has jurisdiction in the matter, and
(b) to continue before that court as if the proceedings had been instituted there.
(2) If the parties in any proceedings that have been instituted in a court so agree, or if the court of its own motion or on the application of a party so directs, the proceedings are, if the proceedings relate to a matter for which the Tribunal has jurisdiction to exercise a Division function:
(a) to be transferred to the Tribunal in accordance with the procedural rules (if any), and
(b) to continue before the Tribunal as if the proceedings had been instituted in the Tribunal.
The Tribunal can of its own motion transfer proceedings. In the case of Gunner v Lawrence; Lawrence v Gunner [2015] NSWCATCD 127, the Tribunal transferred an application for termination and possession of a residential tenancy agreement to the Supreme Court in similar circumstances. On finalisation of the proceedings in the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court transferred the proceedings back to the Tribunal in relation to the application for termination and possession.
Accordingly, directions are also made for submissions in relation to whether the Tribunal should transfer this application to the Supreme Court to be joined with the Supreme Court proceedings.
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Orders
1. The proceedings are stayed until further orders of the Tribunal.
2. The respondent is to provide any documents and submissions in relation to transfer of the matter to the Supreme Court by 10 July 2017.
3. The applicant is to provide any documents and submissions in relation to transfer of the matter to the Supreme Court by 25 July 2017.
4. The issue of the transfer will be decided on the papers. In the event that the parties wish to be heard in person they must advise the Tribunal on or before 25 July 2017. If no further submissions are received, the Tribunal will proceed to make a decision on the papers.
T Simon
Senior Member
Civil and Administrative Tribunal of NSW
22 June 2017
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Registrar
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Decision last updated: 25 August 2017