Amanda Levet and Bruce Levet v Moira Dalla

Amanda Levet and Bruce Levet, as the appellants, sought leave to appeal against the decision of the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal, which was handed down in relation to a dispute with Moira Dalla, the respondent. The nature of the dispute involved an application under the Unit Titles Act 2001, where the Levet's sought a determination regarding certain matters pertaining to the ownership and management of a unit. The Tribunal had ruled in favour of the Dalla, and the Levet's were dissatisfied with this outcome, prompting their application for leave to appeal.

The primary legal issues that the court needed to decide were whether the amount of money at stake warranted an appeal, the principles governing applications for leave to appeal from the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal, and if there was any obvious error in the factual findings or error of law made by the Tribunal. The court needed to weigh the practical implications of the monetary value in question, the necessity of resolving any questions of law, and the correctness of the Tribunal's findings.

The court examined the principles to be applied in such appeals and determined that the amount of money at issue, while not insignificant, did not reach a threshold that would ordinarily justify an appeal. Additionally, the court found that there was no question of law that needed to be resolved, nor were there any obvious errors in the Tribunal's factual findings or application of the law. As a result, the court concluded that the application for leave to appeal should be refused. Consequently, the application was dismissed in its entirety.