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I am going to take a slightly out of character punt here and say that the CTTT may be taking a belt and braces approach to this so that your selfish upstairs neighbour can’t come back and claim they were treated unfairly under the law, triggering another appeal to your District Court.
This can often be the impression given when a judge or adjudicator appears to be doing everything they can to favour one side of a legal case when in fact what they are actually doing is closing every possible appeal loophole to prevent someone whom is clearly an a**hole from using the law to avoid observing their social and legal responsibilities.
Someone I know very well recently had a defamation case against them thrown out with all costs awarded against the paintiff. But if you read all the pages except the one with the judgement on it, you would think that the opposite was going to happen because very possible ground for defamation was examined in detail.
However, it turned out the judge was just opening doors so he could slam them shut. It’s different but, I think, similar.