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The anticipation was that NCAT would exclusively decide on those matters which comprise “all functions of government”[1] and have a “reduced emphasis on legal technicality, offering litigants the opportunity to present their own cases, without disadvantage and without the need to retain legal practitioners to act on their behalf.”[2] The recent decision of SP 95221 v Lane Cove Council [2025] NSWSC 172 (“this Decision”), handed down by Slattery J, identified that by being flexible and informal...