QCAT has no power under s 102(1) of the QCAT Act to award costs to a person who successfully resists a joinder application in a review proceeding, because such a person is not a 'party to a proceeding' within the meaning of that provision. A joinder application under s 42 is interlocutory within the existing proceeding, not a separate proceeding, and its determination within a review proceeding is not in exercise of QCAT's original jurisdiction. The Court noted the resulting differential treatment between original and review jurisdiction as anomalous and potentially warranting legislative amendment.
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