Question 1

It is 21 June 2022. A new client named Bonita Scott has come to see you. Scott is the sole director of a corporation called Long Way To the Shop Pty Ltd. The company supplies and services vending machines in the Brisbane area in Queensland. Over the past two weeks, Scott has been moving the business into a new premises at 48 Black St Fairfield. The registered address of the company has remained, for past 12 years (and for the time being) at the previous business address at 3 Rock St Acacia Ridge. Scott says that her administrative assistant delivered some documents to her at her home at 15 Jailbreak St Ashgrove yesterday on 20 June 2022. The documents had been collected by the assistant from mail delivered at the previous business address in Acacia Ridge. The assistant said that she thought they looked important and so made an urgent personal delivery of them to Scott's home. The postage date on the envelope was 7 June 2022. The first document is a Claim. The Claim, in the approved form, states that it was filed in the Queensland District Court on 5 November 2020 and has the court's seal. It names Scott's company as defendant and 3 plaintiffs each claiming between $158,000 and $560,000 in damages. It includes the relevant notice to the defendant. The second document is a Statement of Claim and provides further detail about the claims. The Statement of Claim is reproduced below: