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[Jimmy-T]

I was talking recently to a strata manager about a new service that’s springing up around their territory – I call them strata advocates – and she said “Oh, you mean those professional pains in the a***.”

I can see why this new breed of quasi-strata-legals is ruffling feathers. They are usually people with experience as a strata manager …
https://www.flatchat.com.au/strata-advocates/

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[Silly Cow]

Jimmy, you haven’t pointed out the alternatives to these private “negotiators” which are mediators accredited by either or both the state and federal governments and which are either encouraged or ordered to happen in all tribunals and courts either before or after litigation commences. It seems to me that you are out of touch.

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[Jimmy-T]

Silly Cow said:  It seems to me that you are out of touch.

Your selective criticism is a bit of a worry. Do you understand how journalism works? As a writer you have a limited amount of space to get the major points of your story across – usually in a specific brief – and you can’t reference every other nuanced alternative.

However, if you did a little research (you know, that thing where you check your facts) before you started bashing out abusive emails, you would realise I have sung the praises of of professional mediators many times in my columns.

Perhaps it would help our readers if you explained where your professional perspective lies in all this. Conflict of interest? Not quite, but close enough in this world of “fake news”.

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