The rise of AI-generated Tenancy Tribunal applications has created a noticeable increase in long, complex, and often poorly grounded claims being filed.
Many of these applications are sprawling, repetitive, and contain dozens of allegations with little supporting evidence.
So it begs the question: Can a landlord or property manager be awarded compensation if a tenant’s application is a big pile of AI Slop?
Well there is one section of the RTA that could be applied.
Section 102 allows the Tenancy Tribunal to award reasonable costs in limited situations, such as where proceedings are frivolous or vexatious, lawyers are involved, or the dispute should have been resolved earlier through mediation.
Costs awarded under this section are still very much the exception, not the rule, and only a handful of cases publicly available online consider these provisions.
The leading authority remains French v Ryan, where the District Court confirmed that Tribunal costs should be approached cautiously and proportionately, using District Court scale costs only as guidance.
You can see that principle applied consistently across recent decisions.
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