Strata Title Disputes: Ensuring You're on the Winning Side
Strata title disputes can quickly grow complex and costly. This seminar will guide you step by step through the best practices and procedures to manage a range of strata title disputes while covering the latest and most important court cases and tribunal decisions that will impact your practice. Property lawyers, strata managers, developers and lot proprietors will all gain useful insights into how to avoid conflict before it arises and how to emerge the victor when disputes do occur.
Description
Attend and earn 3 CPD units in Substantive Law
This seminar was recorded in NSW on 9 November 2018
Chair: Adrian Mueller, Partner, JS Mueller & Co
2.00pm to 2.45pm: Latest Cases, Developments and Trends
- Redevelopment, collective sales and urban renewal procedures update
- The Land & Environment Court and the recent interlocutory proceedings that will dictate how renewal is implemented
- Analysis of recent strata title court cases, tribunal decisions and legislative developments
Presented by Alex Ilkin, Director, Alex Ilkin & Co; author, Strata Legislation Handbook NSW: 2016-2017 and NSW Strata and Community Schemes Management and the Law, Thomson Reuters
2.45pm to 3.30pm: Defects and Protections Under a Contract for Sale of Land
- The role of Occupation Certificates and Compliance Certificates
- Reliance: the touchstone for tort and Australian Consumer Law/Fair Trading Act claims
- Indirect causation: the holy grail
Presented by Paul Jurdeczka, Partner, Chambers Russell Lawyers
3.30pm to 3.45pm Afternoon Tea
3.45pm to 4.30pm: Disputes Regarding Common Property
- Claims for damages for failure by an owners corporation to maintain common property
- S 106 of the Strata Schemes Management Act
- McElwaine v The Owners - Strata plan 75975 [2017] NSWCA 239
Presented by Jane Crittenden, Principal, Jane Crittenden Lawyer
4.30pm to 5.15pm: Building Standards, Products and Safety: Claims Impacting Strata Schemes
- Cladding and the Building Products (Safety) Act 2017 (NSW)
- Update on fire protection and fire safety
- Balconies and other safety or building related claims
Presented by Tom Davie, Barrister, Queen’s Square Chambers