Strata and community title schemes are private property. Anti-discrimination laws generally regulate the public sphere. What happens when anti-discrimination legislation applies to strata and community title schemes?
I’m in Singapore for our ACSL conference and am amazed by the things this mega city has done right. Here are my thoughts
Strata and community title schemes are privately owned. Anti-discrimination legislation is generally focussed on public behaviour. In this blog I discuss how anti-discrimination law has been applied to strata schemes.
Some thoughts on how to deal with difficult people in your scheme.
In more good news for non-smokers, the NSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal made orders on 11 October 2022 preventing lot owners from smoking on the balcony of their lot or anywhere within their lot that would cause smoke, fumes or odour from the tabaco to drift into another lot.
Whether or not by-laws empowering the owners corporation to recover costs were valid has been asked, and answered, in two recent cases. In both cases the by-laws were held to be invalid.
What to do about parking, noise and nuisance behaviours
In this video I share some tips and traps in relation to the use of pre-meeting electronic voting.
Legal advice should be seen as enabling an informed decision: it should ensure you know what rights you have, what you are signing highlight the risks and suggest alternatives.
Whether or not a strata scheme can raise a levy that is not in accordance with the unit entitlements for a scheme is a question that pops up constantly. In this blog we discuss the issue and a potential alternative.
Thoughts from a strata lawyer ... 