How? Not in an easy way I’d suggest, as I assume from your post that your Owners Corporation (O/C) properly resolved (i.e. at a General Meeting) to spend its funds on legal advice, so whether or not that decision was prudent is of no consequence.
Even if your Executive Committee and your Strata Manager have acted unilaterally on the legal advice/expenses, the Regulation permits them to do s to the extent of $12,500 or $1,000/lot, whichever is the lesser amount.
How? Well as I suggested to another person in a recent post, try to obtain a copy of the Strata Management Agency Agreement that your O/C holds with its Strata Manager and ascertain precisely what they’re required to do, particularly with regard to the keeping of records/correspondence.
If you then believe (still) that they’ve been negligent in their duties, then you should peruse the Agreement to ascertain how that may be rectified under the terms of the Agreement, and if it’s not then rectified, how the Agreement may be terminated.
Remember, its the Secretary of your Executive Committee who must advise the Strata Manager of the O/C’s concerns about negligence, and of the possibility that a member of the O/C (you) will move at General Meeting to terminate the Agreement.
There are ways to possibly achieve all of the above via the Consumer Trader & Tenancy Tribunal, but that in my opinion is even more difficult.
No matter what course you choose, you need to get your Executive Committee on-side OR sufficient of the other Owners to support you in your representations to the Strata Managers and to support any Motion to terminate if that proves to be necessary.
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