Thompson v Love [pdf, 23 KB]
...power to award costs if it considers that a party has caused those costs to be incurred unnecessarily by bad faith or allegations that are without substantial merit. [23] The respondent submits that the claimants knew when they filed their application with the Tribunal that their claim had no merit as, by this time, they had obtained the ABS report. I have found that the ABS report is not as conclusive, with respect to the cause of water ingress, as the respondent claims. If...