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Ainsworth & Ors v. Albrecht & Anor

Case No. B37/2016

Case information

Lower Court Judgment

6/11/2015 Supreme Court of Queensland (Court of Appeal)(McMurdo P, Morrison JA, Martin J)

[2015] QCA 220

Catchwords

Procedure – Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997 (QLD) – Where applicants opposed the first respondent's application to extend balcony – Whether Court of Appeal erred in holding that adjudicator was required to reach on conclusion on whether the motion should have passed – Whether QCAT was correct in upholding that adjudicator should have determined whether the "motion was objectively unreasonable".

Short particulars

Documents

25/05/2016 Hearing (SLA, Melbourne)

07/06/2016 Notice of appeal

29/06/2016 Written submissions (Appellants)

12/07/2016 Chronology (Appellants)

20/07/2016 Written submissions (First Respondent)

08/08/2016 Submitting appearance (Second Respondent)

17/08/2016 Reply

29/08/2016 Hearing (Full Court, Canberra) (Audio-visual recording)

12/10/2016 Judgment (Judgment summary)