Quach v GLC Partners Pty Ltd [2025] QCATA 94

The application by Dr Quach filed 2 July 2025 is dismissed on the ground an extension of time to file in the Registry the application for leave to appeal and appeal is not required.

Dr Quach file in the Tribunal two copies and give to GLC Partners by email one copy of any submissions on the application for leave to appeal and appeal, by:

GLC Partners file in the Tribunal two copies and give to Dr Quach by email one copy of any submissions in reply to Dr Quach's submissions, by:

Dr Quach file in the Tribunal two copies and give to GLC Partners by email one copy of any submissions in reply to the submissions of GLC Partners, by:

Unless the Tribunal otherwise directs or orders, the application for leave to appeal and appeal be conducted entirely on the basis of the documents, without the parties, their representatives or witnesses appearing at a hearing under section 32(2) of the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2009 (Qld) (on the papers), after:

These directions and orders be served on the parties by email.

[24] The decision of the Tribunal is set out in the preceding paragraph.

Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2009

(a) Section 12 of the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal Act 2009 (Qld) (QCAT Act) confers the Tribunal's jurisdiction over minor civil disputes. A minor civil dispute is relevantly defined as a claim arising out of a contract between a consumer and trader. > > (b) Consumer and trader are terms defined in Schedule 3 of the QCAT Act where, relevantly a consumer is an individual for whom services are supplied for fee other than in a trade or business carried on by the individual and a trader is a person who in trade or commerce carries on a business of supplying services other than when acting in the exercise of a discipline that is not ordinarily regarded as within the field of trade or commerce. > > (c) In Early Property Group Pty Ltd t/a Early Group Valuers v Cavallaro [2010] QCATA 65, Deputy President Kingham J, stated, in considering whether a valuer came within the exception to the definition of trader:

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