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James – I can’t help wondering how it is that a Strata Managing Agent who was statutorily appointed following your Application to the Tribunal attended mediation presumably in support of the other Owner (?).
Anyway, Sect.62 of the NSW Strata Schemes Management Act (SCMA) requires that Owners Corporations (O/C) properly maintain and repair common property, that in the circumstances that you’ve describe yours didn’t do, because you arranged for some repairs yourself, it would seem without prior written consent from anyone who was empowered to provide it.
So have a look at Chapter 5 of the SCMA and particularly Part 4, and see if you can find any provision under which the Tribunal can Order an O/C to reimburse an Owner in the circumstances described (above), and particularly so where any consent of the former would likely have required a special resolution that the Tribunal may require an O/C to vote upon in that way after the fact, but cannot itself rule upon or make an Order that would bring into effect the same outcome as such a vote would if properly resolved.
Then… perhaps consider who will be funding the O/C’s costs to attend the Tribunal, and the fact that it rarely (if ever) awards costs to either party.
Then… think about a second legal opinion!