@N860CR said:
… Committee takes the commercial lots to NCAT, the commercial lots decide to stop parking the day before the hearing and “promise” the tribunal that they’ll stop. No fine is given, the day after, the cars are back again.The committee gives up …
Was the “promise” verbal and not recorded or was it recorded as a ‘consent order’? In the ACT equivalent, ACAT, if you go to the Tribunal and the parties come to some agreement and they make commitments to do or not do various things, those things are then recorded as ‘consent orders’. They are then legally binding, not just a promise that can be forgotten the next day. Having a Tribunal order enforced is another hoop to jump through but the courts do not look favourably on people who disregard Tribunal orders.