Other State Courts Tribunals & Quasi-Courts

A listing of Other State Courts Tribunals & Quasi-Courts in Australia. Select a court listed below to view for more information, and to view Court Lawyers, Solicitors and Barristers who regularly appear in these courts.

NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT)

From 1 January, 2014, services provided by the following NSW tribunals were consolidated into NCAT:

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practice Tribunal
• Aboriginal Land Councils Pecuniary Interest and Disciplinary Tribunal
• Administrative Decisions Tribunal
• Charity Referees
• Consumer, Trader and Tenancy Tribunal
• Dental Tribunal
• Guardianship Tribunal
• Chinese Medicine Tribunal
• Chiropractic Tribunal
• Medical Radiation Practice Tribunal
• Medical Tribunal
• Nursing and Midwifery Tribunal
• Occupational Therapy Tribunal
• Optometry Tribunal
• Osteopathy Tribunal
• Pharmacy Tribunal
• Physiotherapy Tribunal
• Podiatry Tribunal
• Psychology Tribunal
• Local Government Pecuniary Interest and Disciplinary Tribunal
• Local Land Boards
• Victims Compensation Tribunal (transferred into the ADT in June 2013)
• Vocational Training Appeals Panel

Victorian Civil & Administrative Tribunal

Hears disputes in following matters…

Business Regulation: Reviews various licensing and other decisions; disciplinary proceedings in relation to a number of occupational groups.

Civil Disputes: Hears disputes in relation to goods bought or sold, or relating to someone you hired (or someone who hired you) to supply a service in trade or commerce.

Domestic Building: Resolves domestic building disputes between home owners, builders, sub-contractors, architects, engineers and other building practitioners; reviews decisions of domestic builders warranty insurers.

Equal Opportunity: Hears applications relating to unlawful discrimination, sexual harassment, victimisation, vilification, exemptions, etc.

FOI-TAC and Other Claims: Reviews Victorian government decisions (state, statutory authorities and local council) including decisions made by TAC, Victims of Crime Assistance Tribunal, local councils and FOI decisions.

Guardians-Administrators: Hears applications and makes orders for guardianship and/or administration; appoints a substitute decision-maker when it is in the best interests of an adult with a disability.

Health-Privacy / Disability Act: Hears matters referred to VCAT by the Health Services Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner; review of public health orders made by the Chief Medical Officer and applications under the Disability Act
Joint Property and Water: Hears and determines disputes related to real estate, and subdivision disputes affecting an owner’s corporation.

Land Valuation: Hears objections to land value; decisions on differential rating; claims for compensation under the Planning and Environment Act.

Legal Practice: The Legal Practice List deals with disputes about lawyers’ services and costs and complaints about lawyers’ conduct.

Mental Health: Reviews decisions made by the Mental Health Review Board.

Owners Corporations: Hears disputes between neighbours in a property affected by an owner’s corporation (formerly known as a “body corporate”), disputes about fees, etc.

Planning and Environment: Hears and decides applications by individuals and bodies involving disputes about the use and development of land.

Residential Tenancies: Hears disputes between landlord versus tenant, rooming house owner versus rooming house resident, Director of Housing versus tenant.

Retail Tenancies: Disputes between a landlord and tenant arising under or in relation to a retail premises lease.

State Taxation: Disputes over assessments made by State Government departments in the imposition of State levies and taxes e.g. stamp duties, payroll tax, business franchises (petroleum & tobacco).

Queensland Civil & Administrative Tribunal

Hears disputes in following matters…

Administration for adults: Declaring an adult’s decision making capacity and appointing a responsible adult to make some or all financial and legal decisions for the adult, ensuring their rights are protected.

Anti-discrimination: Complaints of alleged sexual harassment and discrimination and associated objectionable behaviour including racial and religious vilification and victimisation. Also granting exemptions, reviewing decisions made by the Commissioner and providing opinions related to anti-discrimination matters.

Building disputes: Domestic and commercial building disputes, disciplinary proceedings and reviews of decisions by the Queensland Building and Construction Commission (formerly the Building Services Authority) and registered adjudicator decisions.

Children and young people: Child protection matters, adoption applications, blue card applications, prohibiting a person from entering an educational facility.

Consumer and trader disputes: Disputes valued up to and including ,000 arising out of a contract for the supply of goods and services including the repair of a defect in a motor vehicle.

Debt disputes: Disputes against another person, business or company about a fixed or agreed sum of money valued up to and including ,000 e.g. a debt resulting from overhanging branches, an IOU or money lent and not repaid. Debt disputes were previously dealt with by the Magistrates Court.

Guardianship for adults: Declaring an adult’s decision making capacity and appointing a responsible adult to make some or all personal and health care decisions for the adult, ensuring their rights are protected.

Minor civil disputes: Disputes valued up to and including ,000 including debt disputes, consumer disputes, residential tenancy disputes, property damage disputes and dividing fence disputes.

Other civil disputes: Tree disputes, body corporate and community management scheme disputes, financial losses caused by motor and property agents, integrated resort development matters, legal cost agreement claims, manufactured home park disputes, retirement village disputes and Sanctuary Cove Resort disputes.

Occupational regulation: Disciplinary proceedings and licencing decisions for architects, building personnel, health practitioners, introduction agents, legal practitioners, motor dealers, nursing practitioners, plumbers and drainers, prescribed persons who are public servants or police officers, professional engineers, property agents, racing personnel, second-hand dealers and pawnbrokers, security providers, surveyors, tattooists and tattoo business operators, teachers, tour operators, travel agents, valuers and veterinary surgeons.

Residential tenancy disputes: A wide range of disputes between tenants, landlords (lessors) or agents and residents, providers of, or agents for rooming accommodation.

Review of administrative decisions: Decisions made by government agencies and other bodies including statutory authorities.
 

• Guardianship and Administration
• Building Disputes
• Vocational Regulation
• Commercial Tenancy
• Local Government Decisions
• Town Planning
• Strata Titles
• Residential Parks
• Equal Opportunity
• Working with Children Checks
• Gender Reassignment
• Adoptions
• Mental health Appeals
• Resources
• Land Valuation and Tax
• Heritage Decisions
   

Jurisdictions not included in QCAT: A number of significant bodies that make civil or administrative decisions were not amalgamated into QCAT and not are not within QCAT jurisdiction:

The Mental Health Review Tribunal and the Mental Health Court
Bodies making decisions about development or planning and environment issues including the Planning and Environment Court, the Land Court and the Building and Development Tribunals
Industrial dispute bodies including the Industrial Court, the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission and the review functions of the Public Service Commission.

Western Australia State Administrative Tribunal

Hears and determines matters relating to inter alia…

• Guardianship and Administration
• Building Disputes
• Vocational Regulation
• Commercial Tenancy
• Local Government Decisions
• Town Planning
• Strata Titles
• Residential Parks
• Equal Opportunity
• Working with Children Checks
• Gender Reassignment
• Adoptions
• Mental health Appeals
• Resources
• Land Valuation and Tax
• Heritage Decisions