Customweave Australia Pty Ltd and Frank Riccob - Court action
Carpet supplier Customweave and one of its officers have been fined $900 each for breaching the Fair Trading Act 1999, by failing to supply carpet to a customer within reasonable time after accepting a...
View ArticleBenjamin James Pty Ltd – Court action
A Victorian tribunal has affirmed a decision against Fawkner car dealer Benjamin James Pty Ltd by the Motor Car Traders Claims Committee.
View ArticleDandy Performance Tyre & Auto Pty Ltd and Kirsty and Chris Naismith –...
Melbourne Magistrate’s Court has imposed final injunctions against Dandy Performance Tyre & Auto Pty Ltd and its owners, restraining them from carrying on the business of trading in motor cars...
View ArticleEngine Galore Pty Ltd and Jean Georges Chbib - Court action
Melbourne Magistrates’ Court has restrained the director of wholesale motor car trader Enging Galore Pty Ltd from buying, selling or exchanging vehicles with the public until licensed to do so.
View ArticleCarrum Business Centre Pty Ltd and Judith Ann-Helena Smith - Court action
Carrum Business Centre Pty Ltd and its sole director Judith Ann-Helena Smith were found to carry on a conveyancing business whilst unlicensed.
View ArticleDu Pont Sung International Properties Pty Ltd and Christine Parsons - Court...
A Sunbury real estate business and one of its directors – who is also a licensed estate agent - have been fined a total of $22,000 for serious breaches of the Estate Agents Act 1980, including...
View ArticleAndrew John Anastassiou - Court action
Former South Melbourne car dealer Andrew John Anastassiou has been convicted and fined $20,000 for contraventions of the Motor Car Traders Act 1986.
View ArticleAlejandro Narvaez-Contreras - Court action
An unregistered builder who accepted nearly $300,000 in payments from a couple, but failed to build their home, has been convicted and fined in Melbourne Magistrates' Court.
View ArticleEvangeline Maciula - Court action
An unlicensed motor car trader has been convicted and fined $5000 after offering to sell 26 vehicles.
View ArticleDavid Christopher Stogiannou - Court action
An unregistered builder who accepted nearly $18,000 in payments on two projects which he failed to complete has been convicted and ordered to pay more than $10,000 in compensation.
View ArticleAnfastar Pty Ltd - Court action
The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) has affirmed a decision by the a delegate of the Secretary of the Department of Justice to refuse a company’s application for $31,000 compensation...
View ArticleHair Science International Pty Ltd, Steve Sindiris and Joseph Zwaigoft –...
Melbourne Magistrates’ Court has imposed a civil pecuniary penalty of $100,000 on Hair Science International Pty Ltd (Hair Science) for making false claims that its treatment could regrow hair - when...
View ArticleMr Charles Su, Portal Property Group Pty Ltd and Su Property Group Pty Ltd -...
Licensed estate agent Charles Su has been fined $3500 for permitting two companies - Portal Property Group Pty Ltd and Su Property Group Pty Ltd - to carry on business as estate agents without a...
View ArticleMatthew Easton and Adrian Byers - Court actions
An unregistered builder involved in a scheme in which he falsely claimed to be a registered builder by using the other’s qualifications, has been found guilty.
View ArticleSuperstar Removals and Cleaning P/L, Shine Removals P/L, Blue Rhino Removals...
Three removalist companies and two individuals misled and deceived customers about the insurance applying to their services, Melbourne Magistrates’ Court has found.
View ArticleMorgan Realty Pty Ltd and Kent Morgan - Court action
Melbourne Magistrates’ Court has restrained Kent Morgan and his business Morgan Realty Pty Ltd from operating as estate agents without holding a licence.
View ArticleMayman Pty Ltd - Court action
Melbourne Magistrates’ Court has found that importer Mayman Pty Ltd breached an enforceable undertaking it gave to Consumer Affairs Victoria in January 2013 after more than 100 banned miniature...
View ArticleSyed Sarwari - Court action
A Narre Warren man has been fined $600, without conviction, after admitting to unlicensed motor car trading by offering 28 vehicles for sale online, between 30 August 2011 and 11 November 2012.
View ArticleDimmeys Stores Pty Ltd, Starite Distributors Pty Ltd and Douglas Edward...
Discount retailer Dimmeys Stores Pty Ltd, Starite Distributors Pty Ltd and the companies’ director, Douglas Edward Zappelli, have been ordered to pay $3.72 million for product safety breaches.
View ArticleGuy Anderson - Court action
A builder has been fined $12,000 and ordered to pay compensation of more than $42,000 after carrying out work while unregistered.
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