Bartlett v The Owners – Strata Plan No 12375 [2025] NSWCATCD 92 (10 July 2025) REAL PROPERTY – STRATA MANAGEMENT – lot owner seeking refund of levies for owners corporation litigation costs and expenses in earlier proceedings the subject of consent orders – sold lot after commencing proceedings – separate questions – jurisdiction and standing for claim determined at time of filing application – correct characterisation of consent orders as [...]

4S Constructions Pty Ltd v Owners Corporation PS268502Y (Costs) (30 September 2025) COSTS — Appeal proceeding dismissed by consent — Section 148 appeal from VCAT — Whether indemnity costs appropriate in the circumstances — Exercise of the Court’s discretion — Costs awarded on a standard basis — Supreme Court Act 1986 (Vic) s 24 — Rokon Holding Pty Ltd v River St Property Nominees Pty Ltd (No 2) [2025] VSC [...]

Chen v The Owners –Strata Plan No 55792 [2025] NSWCATAP 239 (29 September 2025) APPEALS – whether appeal raised a question of law – no question of principle – whether appeal raises an error warranting a grant of leave – no question of principle – appeals of interlocutory decisions – no question of principle Download Case PDF  

Medcalf v The Body Corporate for the Hervey Bay Pier Resort CTS 36641 [2025] QCAT 355 (20 August 2025) This case relates to the subdivision development of a 900-hectare block of coastal land at Weiti Bay just south of the Whangaparaoa Peninsula, north of Auckland. The initial landowner was Green & Mccahill Holdings Ltd. That company, along with its land, was purchased by a Taiwanese family company in 1991. One [...]

Green & McCahill Holdings Ltd v Williams & Ors [2025] NZHC 2581 (26 September 2025) This case relates to the subdivision development of a 900-hectare block of coastal land at Weiti Bay just south of the Whangaparaoa Peninsula, north of Auckland. The initial landowner was Green & Mccahill Holdings Ltd. That company, along with its land, was purchased by a Taiwanese family company in 1991. One of the senior directors [...]

Blue Water Co Pty Ltd v Castillo [2025] QCATA 82 (24 September 2025) APPEAL – GENERAL PRINCIPLES – RIGHT OF APPEAL – WHEN APPEAL LIES – ERROR OF LAW – where s 289(2) of the Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997 (Qld) allows an appeal from an Adjudicator’s order on a question of law REAL PROPERTY – STRATA AND RELATED TITLES – MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL – BYLAWS – whether [...]

The Owners – Strata Plan No 93543 v Zhang (No 4) [2025] NSWSC 1059 (19 September 2025) CIVIL PROCEDURE – default judgment – procedural imbroglio – non-compliance with self-executing order – mistake by defendant’s solicitor – whether Court has power to extend time for compliance – where no ongoing prejudice to plaintiff and defendant’s solicitor submits to personal costs order Download Case PDF  

Russo v The Owners - Strata Plan No 53188 [2025] NSWCATAP 235 (24 September 2025) APPEALS – costs – settled proceedings, consent orders except as to costs Download Case PDF  

Water World Pure Drinking Water Pty Ltd v The Owners – Strata Plan No. 69536 [2025] NSWCATCD 83 (7  July 2025) LAND LAW - Strata title - Duty of owners corporation to maintain and repair common property – Breach - Damages Download Case PDF  

Barnett v The Owners – Strata Plan No 85385; The Owners – Strata Plan No 85385 v Barnett [2025] NSWCATCD 81 (7  July 2025) LAND LAW – Strata schemes – Common property – whether common property or lot property\ LAND LAW – Strata schemes – By-laws – power to make declarations that by-law void, repealed or varied – standing of owners corporation to seek order declaring by-law invalid – validity [...]