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Brisbane’s Supreme Court has shot down an appeal from controversial Brisbane landlord Edward Amos to stop the state from seizing several of his Brisbane properties to repay decades-old court costs.
The Brisbane-based landlord has had the court costs from the dismissed appeal – which was not detailed in the ruling handed down – as well as outstanding legal costs from a 2014 land tax case filed against him by the government.
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The state originally took Amos to court over $487,994 in unpaid land tax in 2014, which he was ordered to pay alongside legal costs of about $122,000.
The state received an order to seize and sell Amos’ properties in 2017, and in late 2024 Amos began launching appeals, including a claim the properties were not his own, but instead belonged to his children and were held in trust.
After a judge ruled against that claim in April this year, Amos launched an appeal, seeking to stay the seizure order – which would keep government auctioneers away from his properties – on the basis of the state delaying action too long.
The three-judge panel dismissed Amos’ appeal, stating the panel was “not satisfied Mr Amos suffered any real prejudice” from the delays.
“If [Amos] had wished to avoid uncertainty as to whether, or at what time, the Commissioner might seize and sell any of his properties to enforce the costs orders, all he had to do was pay the amounts as ordered,” the court decision read.
