Pelovski and National Disability Insurance Agency

In *Pelovski and National Disability Insurance Agency*, the applicant sought the revocation of twenty-five summonses issued by the Tribunal. The applicant argued that the requests for the summonses were not in the correct form and constituted a "fishing expedition," lacking apparent relevance to the issues to be determined.

The primary legal issues before the Tribunal were whether the requests for the summonses were invalid due to non-compliance with procedural requirements, and whether the requests constituted an abuse of process, particularly concerning service on the applicant and the provision of reasons.

The Tribunal reasoned that while there might have been a technical non-compliance with the literal wording of a regulation regarding the number of forms to be submitted, this did not invalidate the issued summonses. The Tribunal found that using a single form for multiple summonses was more expeditious and assisted the Tribunal's management of the matter. Furthermore, the Tribunal noted that the applicant had not raised any substantive complaints about the content of the summonses themselves. Regarding the abuse of process claims, the Tribunal found that the *Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975* (Cth) did not require the request for summonses to be served on other parties, and that parties were notified by the Tribunal after the summonses were issued, with an opportunity to object.

The Tribunal found that the request for summonses was filed in the approved form and that the use of one form instead of twenty-five separate forms was not sufficient grounds for refusing the request or revoking the summonses. The application for revocation was therefore refused.