A WOMAN who helped her partner market his guitar business in
exchange for lessons sent him a $26,000 bill for the work after they
split up, a tribunal has heard.
When the two-year relationship came to an end in November 2010, the
woman calculated the cost of guitar lessons for herself and her children
and offset that against what she assessed to be the value of her
contribution to the marketing of the business.
She sent her ex-partner an invoice for $26,415 which he refused to pay because he argued there had been no contract.
She filed a dispute in the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT).
However, an adjudicator ruled against her in January this year after seeing emails from her rejecting offers of payment.
She
sought leave to appeal this decision, but senior QCAT member Richard
Oliver, in a judgment published this week, refused the request.