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  • 15/02/2014 at 1:18 am #9354 Reply | Quote
    Millie
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      I remember Jimmy T writing sometime last year(?) about lawyers and strata issues and threats of litigation.

      We have a lawyer who’s just been ‘promoted’ to the position of secretary on our EC.  One could say that this lawyer and I don’t see eye to eye on a whole list of things, but that’s another story.  The lawyer declared last year that one of his missions in life was to “hunt down and sue me”.  

      The Lawyer subsequently went to the Head of his Firm, who OK’d the Firm suing me, demanding apologies, retractions, major money etc for something the lawyer “took exception to”.  If I didn’t comply, the Firm would take me to the Supreme Court.  (That which I was accused of was done by someone else.  There’s been no apologie and no retraction from their side.  Not a peep.  They’re still hunting the person ‘responsible’.)

      The lawyer and his Firm have a confidential, undisclosed agreement with the EC to provide legal advice to the OC.  

      To date, in total, I have had about 25 threats of litigation/claims for costs, and counting.  And we’re talking very serious stuff here. (Yes, we’re not friends!  And I’m not a professional ‘heavy weight’.)

      Communication with the Strata Manager/Building Management Staff is now banned – everything has to go directly to the lawyer/his Firm.

      RENOVATIONS:  Out of courtesy I sent the lawyer/his Firm a ‘scope of works’ for some internal renovations contracted to take place very soon.  The Lawyer has bounced back saying that this can’t happen without EC approval, I have to wait till the EC meets, etc etc.  I suspect that the project will be knocked back, just ‘because’.

      The scenario is so predictable; under normal circustances I would laugh.

      Do I sit patiently and wait and pray for the blessing of our learned lawyer Secretary/his Firm and the EC, or do I write to the Head of this major Legal organisation, saying that I reckon his multi-national company and his partner are picking on me?  I pretty much reckon that’d be suicide!

      I do want to do my renovations.  The small things in life, you know.

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