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I’ve spoken at some length in articles about the dispute resolution service my Office provides. More generally, dispute resolution in the body corporate context can be thought of as a series of escalating steps which can, and must, be taken to reach resolution. In this article, I will give an overview of these steps. While…
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2017 will be remembered as the year of countless submissions to the government for legislative change, and of the rise of vexatious lot owners who have learnt to abuse the dispute resolution service provided by the Commissioner’s Office. If 2018 is to be a happy new year for Queensland’s strata industry, both of these issues…
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Commissioner Forward Welcome to our latest edition of Common Ground. One of the challenges my Office faces is how we can best reach Queensland’s substantial – and expanding – community titles sector. At last count, for example, there were more than 45,000 schemes, all of which presumably might, at some stage, need some information or…
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The concept of holding a secret ballot to determine an outcome is well-established in many different contexts. Generally speaking, secret ballots are used in situations where there are important decisions to be made and it is therefore essential that anyone entitled to vote can do so freely, without fear of the voter being identified and…
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