The Tribunal refused the applicants' application for security for costs against the respondent in a domestic building dispute, holding that while QCAT had power to make such an order under s 109 and s 62 of the QCAT Act, the discretion should be exercised against it where the respondent was an involuntary litigant of modest means, a natural person resident in Australia, and there was a prospect that the order would shut the respondent out from defending the proceeding.
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