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This is what my research says:
“In New South Wales, a strata owners corporation generally does not need approval from a general meeting for non-urgent legal fees under $3,000. This exception also applies to legal services for recovering unpaid contributions, obtaining advice before legal action, or urgent matters costing under $15,000.”
Given the $3k the OC seeking legal advice is non urgent, our SM and committee believe they don’t need to seek OC approval as long as each lawyer’s bill is below $3k.
The legal fees now total $5k, is it reasonable that the EC does not seek OC approval even though the lawyer is dealing with the same matter and the total cost is now $5k +.
Also, the legal advice the OC has sought is against us even though we don’t need to comply as our balustrade is less than 1m from the ground (yes we had our own own engineer confirm this).
Do we have a legitimate argument to ask that we shouldn’t need to pay towards the legal fees that the OC has spent against us.
We have agreed to the reinforcement of our balcony even though we don’t need to comply under the building code. We will lose 2sqm of our balcony which will mean our aircon compressor will pour out heat where we sit on our balcony. Our balconies are not that big.
Any thoughts you have would be very much appreciated.
Thank you