70-70A Castlereagh Street

APPEAL – STRATA TITLE- application to amend unit entitlements- valuation evidence necessary.

LAND LAW – Strata title – Strata plan – Unit entitlements – Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 (NSW) s 236 – Order allocating unit entitlements – Requirement for certificate of valuation – Whether certificate required to value all lots or only those whose unit entitlement is proposed to be changed – Whether a lot is a “lot to which the application relates” if its unit entitlement does not change but the aggregate unit entitlement of all lots is reduced LAND LAW – Strata title – Owners corporation – Liability of owners corporation – Circumstances in which an owners corporation is liable to lot owners for breach of statutory duty – Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 (NSW) s 9 – Extent of the statutory duty arising from the conferral of responsibility for the management of a strata scheme LAND LAW – Strata title – Owners corporation – Liability of owners corporation – Circumstances in which an owners corporation is liable to lot owners for negligence – Extent of an owners corporation’s duty of care to lot owners in relation to the management of the strata scheme LAND LAW – Strata title – Time-limit for commencement of applications in the Civil and Administrative Tribunal by lot owners seeking damages for breach of statutory duty or negligence against the owners corporation – Civil and Administrative Tribunal Rules 2014 (NSW) rule 23(1)(b)