The Supreme Court of WA decides “unfinancial” doesn’t mean powerless: owners fight back
Owning the majority of the unit entitlement in a small strata scheme does not, by itself, authorise a co-owner to sign contracts for the strata company — and unpaid levies don’t make an owner “unfinancial” if the fund they were levied for was never validly established. In Zhao v The Owners of 5 Wimbledon Street […]
SAT decides who pays to fix a non-compliant balcony
Lot owners — not the strata company — generally bear the cost of rectifying non-compliant alterations within their own lot, even where the alteration was made by a previous owner decades earlier. In The Owners of Kingsway Gardens (Strata Scheme 4) and Wilkinson [2026] WASAT 94, the State Administrative Tribunal (SAT) considered a dispute over […]