BLOG AUTHOR : Tiphanie Acreman
Welcome to our Legal Blog with posts from expert barristers covering a vast range of jurisdictions, issues and updates in the law.
Common property boundaries and the Water Act – who is liable for unreasonable flows of water into an apartment?
- 06 August 2019
Revised residential noise regulations
- 23 October 2018
Non-compliant cladding update
- 19 October 2018
Supreme Court confirms that OCs must carry out works to common property to avoid discrimination against persons with disabilities
- 29 June 2018
Which Prevails – the OC Rules or the Planning Permit Conditions?
- 21 June 2018
OCs may be obliged to carry out works to upgrade access for persons with disabilities
- 18 February 2018
The legalities around apartment living
- 06 December 2017
Penalties for failing to give copies of Building Act Notices and Orders
- 02 November 2017
The Tribunal’s power to make “any order it considers fair” is not unlimited
- 09 May 2017
Dispute Resolution procedures in the Owners Corporation Act
- 26 September 2016
Correcting errors on the plan of subdivision to change the boundary between two private lots
- 26 September 2016
Special Rules – they might be made by the owners corporation but are they valid?
- 14 September 2016
Validity of proxies
- 05 June 2015
Noise from other lots
- 28 May 2012
Parking on common property
- 17 July 2012
Breach by a proxy holder and committee member’s immunity
- 30 August 2012
An OC fighting fund and resident’s action group
- 19 October 2012
OC responsibility for trees on common property
- 12 November 2012
Insurance obligations of an OC in multi-level buildings
- 04 April 2013
Unauthorised installation of private plant on common property
- 27 May 2013
Breach of OC Rules
- 15 August 2013
Which prevails – the OC rules or a licence over common property?
- 11 September 2013
Power of the OC to regulate the use of car spaces on private title
- 25 September 2013
Company Title (Home Units) Act 2013
- 01 October 2013
Removal of OC Manager
- 28 November 2013
An OC cannot make rules that discriminate against lot owners
- 18 December 2013
Altering the subdivision – the hoops have been removed
- 23 May 2014
Appointment of an administrator where the OC is dysfunctional
- 02 October 2014
OC not maintaining common property
- 03 October 2014
Latent defects and builder’s responsibility to the OC
- 08 October 2014
Where precisely are the lot boundaries?
- 16 October 2014
Neighbourhood disputes in company title properties
- 17 November 2014
Owners Corporation Amendment Bill 2013 – annual fees, special levies and the benefit principle
- 17 December 2014
Company Titles (Home Units) Act 2013 – enforcing duties of a service company
- 30 January 2015
Encroachment onto common propert
- 30 January 2015
Lot owner fined $10,000 for contempt
- 30 January 2015
Failure to pass a special resolution to commence legal proceedings
- 18 February 2015
Works to services and OC resolutions
- 19 March 2015
Maintenance charges for retirement villages
- 22 April 2015
OC Fees and bankruptcy
- 29 April 2015
Extraordinary items of expenditure requiring a special resolution
- 29 May 2015
Validity of proxies
- 05 June 2016
Short stay accommodation
- 29 June 2015
Manager’s early termination charges
- 29 July 2015
Review of OC Act
- 21 August 2015
Retirement Village manager held in contempt
- 25 August 2015
Is the lot liability ‘just and equitable’?
- 15 September 2015
Leases over common property
- 06 November 2015
Can an owners corporation pursue a remedy for defects on common property?
- 06 November 2015
