Tag Archives: strata maintenance

design and building practitioners

The Statutory Duty of Care and the Design and Building Practitioners Act 2020

The Design and Building Practitioners Act 2020 (NSW) (Design Act) received assent last week with the Residential Apartment Buildings (Compliance and Enforcement Powers) Act 2020 (NSW) (RBA). The Acts are part of NSW’s response to the flaws in the compliance and enforcement systems in the building industry and the public outcry that has followed the […]

common property maintenance obligations s106

Common property and maintenance obligations – have the floodgates opened on S106 (5) claims?

Strata common property maintenance obligations s106. It’s been a big month for strata, with two Court of Appeal decisions extending potential claims available to lot owners. On 30 August 2017, in Shum v the Owners Corporation SP30621 [2017] NSWCATCD 68 Member Grew awarded a lot owner damages for breach of the OC’s duty to maintain and […]