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Podcast: Hot Seat Part 2 – Vexatious litigants

  • 22/05/2025
  • Author Jimmy-T

Podcast: In this second part of Lawyer in the Hot Seat, David Bannerman answers questions about vexatious litigants, internal disputes and embedded networks.

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    Forum: Coin-op laundry machines are in the way

    • 20/02/2025
    • Author Jimmy-T

    Forum: Who's in charge of old coin-op laundry machines? EV charging worries; NCAT appearance fears; strata meeting mess; Strata Hub survey

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      Forum: Happy strata owner breaks the mould

      • 06/02/2025
      • Author Jimmy-T

      Happy strata owner, confusion about privacy, Tribunal tension, grabbing back CP land, and OC refuses to fix mould problem - all in this week's Forum.

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        Forum: Growing pains for a strata garden

        • 12/12/2024
        • Author Jimmy-T

        Anti-garden complaint, what happened to the Netstrata inquiry, informing owners about NCAT actions, combining strata loans and special levies.

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          Podcast: Sins of the commission see Minns quit

          • 05/12/2024
          • Author Jimmy-T

          In this week's podcast, we hear how frustrated just-quit Strata Commissioner John Minns is and was by the under-resourcing of his department.

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            Forum: Spare keys and emergency access

            • 14/11/2024
            • Author Jimmy-T

            A reader asks, if you don't leave spare keys with someone, are you obstructing access to your flat in an emergency when you're not there?

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              Six-strike strata manager struck off for 10 years

              • 24/07/2024
              • Author Jimmy-T

              A NSW strata manager has been “struck off” for 10 years by NSW Fair Trading following four years of complaints from at least six different strata schemes. According to the…

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                Fake news clickbait over ‘neighbour from Hell’

                • 12/06/2024
                • Author Jimmy-T

                It’s rare that we are inspired to quote Shakespeare, even as we strut and fret upon the strata stage. But there’s a story in Domain in the Sydney Morning Herald…

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                  Forum: Back with a brand new year screamer

                  • 12/01/2024
                  • Author Jimmy-T

                  Ah, we’re back with a bumper post bag chock full of all the odds and ends (some of them very odd) of strata life. There are some perennial favourites –…

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                    No smoke without ire in vicious balcony battle

                    • 28/11/2023
                    • Author Jimmy-T

                    When Flatchatter Sorrel (not her real name) tried to do something about smoke drift from her new neighbours’ balcony into her home she found herself in a year-long battle that…

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                      Forum: Range wars and modern strata cowboys

                      • 18/08/2023
                      • Author Jimmy-T

                      Back in the old Wild West (of America, not Australia) they had what they called “range wars” – they broke out when farmers, who legitimately owned chunks of land, would…

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                        Forum: Your thoughts on rents, pets and NCAT?

                        • 20/07/2023
                        • Author Jimmy-T

                        We’re going to depart from the normal reader Q&A format this week, to try to gauge your thoughts on a number of issues. Firstly, should we be happy or worried…

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