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To be honest, I have no idea what they mean by a “super tribunal”. If it's the same people deciding on issues like dangerous toys, broken mobile phones and dodgy mechanics as are expected to rule on strata matters, I'm against it.
If it's all about experienced strata adjudicators ruling on a simple basis of whether or not strata law or by-laws have been broken, as part of a larger organisation that can control and weed out inefficient and rogue elements in their ranks, I'm for it.
Personally, I'd do away with the whole Fair Trading mediation and CTTT adjudication farce and have a panel of a strata manager, a strata lawyer and an experienced layperson (ex EC officebearer, for instance) give quick decisions after some on-the-spot attempts at genuine mediation. Their decisions would be based purely on strata law and by-laws in place.
Let anyone who disputes the result then take the matter to appeal, with cost to be awarded against them if that appeal fails.
It would be simpler, faster, more efficient and probably fairer – and it would stop serial litigants from clogging up the system.
But you see, BB, that is so far from what Government is thinking, there is no point in even suggesting it to them.