And to whom, Sir Humphrey, does one demonstrate the truth? The SC?
Facts and “truth” are less important than cause and effect.
If someone is telling lies or presenting erroneous information that is causing damage to the strata scheme, than that is something that can be and should be challenged via the mediation and tribunal system.
If it’s a case of personal affront, my view is that there are beter ways to spend (waste?) your time and emotional energy than fighting the good fight.
In the building where I live, the chair routinely stacks the committee with their chosen acolytes – generally the rich people who live on the higher floors – and makes snide and derisory comments to anyone who offers any criticism (including, especially, yours truly).
However, they have adopted our building as their hobby farm and do a lot of unpaid work. All that said, when they make a bad decsion, there is enough involvement in the general community to stop their more egregious plans. And if they did something that was bad for the scheme, and pushed it through at an AGM, I and others would run them through Fair Trading and the Tribunal.
It has taken me a while to realise this, but sometimes it’s easier to eat the shit sandwich, and keep your powder dry until you really need it, rather than be the constant thorn in their side that eventually becomes blunted through over-use.
Otherwise, if someone has lied about you or the fact of the matter and it’s on the record, put your correction and objection on the record too, perhaps in the form of a motion to the next general meeting that “so and so be asked to withdraw and apologise for the erroneous information they presented on such and such a date.”
Then it is there for everyone to see and if they decline to withdraw or apologise, then it’s on them and not you. If the chair declines to put it on the agenda, then you can apply for mediation because they have breached strata law and that is where the truth will come out.