NCAT
(New South Wales Civil and Administrative Tribunal)
O’Brien Criminal and Civil Solicitors can provide legal advice to an individual or entity that is defending a complaint against them in the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT).
What matters does NCAT deal with?
Administrative and Equal Opportunity Division
Consumer and Commercial Division
Guardianship Division
Occupational Division
Administrative and Equal Opportunity Division
- Community services
- State revenue
- Job and firearm licensing
- Discrimination
- Working with children checks
- Privacy
- Access to government information
- Victims services
- Charity referees
- Land matters
- Equal opportunity
Consumer and Commercial Division
- Consumer claims
- Commercial matters
- Home building
- Motor vehicles
- Residential communities
- Dividing fences
- Retirement villages
- Strata and community schemes
- Tenancy and social housing
- Boarding houses
- Retail leases
Guardianship Division
- Appointment of a guardian
- Appointment of a financial manager
- Review of enduring guardianship
- Review of power of attorney and revocation
- Medical or dental treatment
- Clinical trials
- Review of orders
Occupational Division
- Taxi licences
- Real estate agent licenses
- Motor dealers and repairer licences
- Licenced conveyancers
- Health professionals
- Legal practitioners
- Veterinary practitioners
- Architects and building professionals
Outcome
NCAT may do one of the following:
- Make the full orders sought by the applicant
- Decide that only part of the applicant’s claim can be made
- Dismiss the application.
Appeal an NCAT decision
Section 32 (1) The Tribunal has internal appeal jurisdiction over—
(a) any decision made by the Tribunal in proceedings for a general decision or administrative review decision, and
(b) any decision made by a registrar of a kind that is declared by this Act or the procedural rules to be internally appealable for the purposes of this section.
(b) any decision of the Tribunal in an external appeal, or
(c) any decision of the Tribunal in proceedings for the exercise of its enforcement jurisdiction, or
(d) any decision of the Tribunal in proceedings for the imposition of a civil penalty in exercise of its general jurisdiction.
