JUDGMENT
116994/2026_ 09062026 / bs
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are not being properly subjected to the regime . These
entities include Property24, Booking.com, and Airbnb.
In its founding papers, the applicant does nothing to
set out a basis on which I would be inclined to, or could be
required to , treat this matter as urgent. There is no
suggestion that unless the final relief sought today is
granted, the applicant will suffer a prejudice that on its own
version it has no t been suffering for the last several
months. In other words, there is no looming threat to the
applicant ’s business from the ongoing state of affairs of
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which it complains .
Complaints of regulatory non -enforcement ought only
to serve before the urgent court once the stage has been
reached where the applicant faces an emergent or
catastrophic situation resulting from a failure to enforce.
That has not been alleged here. Moreover, the entities
listed in the notice of motion have not been joined to these
proceedings. To the extent that the applicant wishes this
court to make an order that they are subject to a particular
regime and may be in breach of it, they are directly and
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substantially interested parties who ought to have been
joined from the outset.
For that re ason, too, this matter cannot proceed
today.
Accordingly –