When a contract's not a contract

[Bantam Roosta]

Sorry Terry, but it looks like a contract is not always a contract.

BR

 

[Rhinsor]

Anyone got a link to a reliable website for the VCAT decision?

 

[Perp]

I'd like to know if she signed an unconditional lease and then broke it, or signed a lease subject to satisfactory security inspection, before I started judging.

(And I dislike Tony Abbott rather a lot, but I'm none too fond of bringing politicians' families into the media when there's no suggestion of wrongdoing on the part of the politician themselves. Their families are not public figures and do not deserve this kind of scrutiny.)

 

[Terry_w]

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/vic/VCAT/2014/

It doesn't appear to be loaded yet, but should be on the bottom of that page when it is.

 

[Perp]

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/vic/VCAT/2014/

It doesn't appear to be loaded yet, but should be on the bottom of that page when it is.

They don't publish all Tribunal decisions, do they?

Edit: In fact, I'm sure they don't. There's only an average of 1 or 2 decisions per day published, whereas they make dozens to hundreds of decisions every day.

 

[thatbum]

I can already say its probably not that controversial. When's a contract not a contract? Answer is when its rescinded.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescission

Happens all the time, and she did the right thing by moving quickly to apply for a remedy.

 

[FrugalOne]

As far as I know a landlord has the obligation to make a property "reasonably secure".

I really can't be stuffed reading/checking/thinking about it all. Except to say in this case, given who she is, maybe the property wasn't "reasonably secure" and that was her out?

 

[marg4000]

As far as I know a landlord has the obligation to make a property "reasonably secure".
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True, but in THIS case the property was falsely advertised with an exaggerated security level than was the actual case, which seems to be the basis on which the tribunal decision was based.
Marg