@isydowner said:
Hello fellow chatters, in relation to legal professionals that are engaged to oppress or be aggressive towards lot owners, what do you do if they lie to the owners corporation or the Tribunal.I ask because misleading and deceptive conduct appears to be the norm in CTTT and NCAT yet no government body does anything about it!
Surely they have a responsibility to be truthful and fair?
A friend is in a situation that entails an autocratic committee who hide items from owners and then give them the bill once the lies have won out! But other owners are shocked once they find out how much money is being wasted on legal services… That aren’t considered by anyone other than the Exe Commies.
My situation was they put someone else’s condenser on my balcony and had a strata lawyer claim it was to fulfil its section 62 requirements… Not over yet thanks to Whales advice.
I am hoping Strata Reforms can weed out bad lawyers who engage in this sort of conduct, but what do you do if your the victim… and bad committee members are self serving Hitlers!?!
Other peoples experiences would be good to know, as would how they dealt with it and how successful their actions were.
Cheers all,
Thom R
The problem isn’t the lawyers but the system. Lawyers are paid to represent their clients, not the truth. They accept what their clients are saying is true unless there is clear evidence that it isn’t. I can’t recall if you have to take an oath at an NCAT hearing but if you do, then lying under oath is perjury. The problem is that even the dumbest lawyer is smarter than many of the NCAT members.
These days, petitioners at NCAT have to seek permission to be represented by lawyers. Perhaps this will lead to more cases being decided on provable fact and the law than persuasive arguments by m’learned friends.