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Building defects

Are retro strata buildings back in vogue?

Strata managers and lawyers will tell you building defects have been a consistent issue in the apartment sector for many years. The problem however has not been highlighted to the…

Australia Strata Titles

Strata Titles – Australia’s least known export product.

By – Gary Bugden OAM* Strata titles was first introduced in NSW in 1961 to replace a range of apartment ‘ownership’ schemes which arose during the post-war housing crisis in…

Bond University becomes first Australian university to offer strata as a subject

Bugden Allen Lawyers partner, Gary Bugden, has accepted a professorial appointment at Bond University to deliver a new subject, “Strata and Community Titles”. The new subject is being offered as…

Launch of Australia’s most authoritative strata law firm

On 1st July 2019, it was announced that Bugden Legal, a boutique law firm in Brisbane, merged with Sydney-based Allen Partners and will now be known as Bugden Allen Lawyers. Bugden Allen…

A timely reminder about defamation

Defamation appears to be a popular topic of late. Following Geoffrey Rush’s award of the largest personal defamation payout in Australian legal history, comes a residential apartment tenant who was…

Child Safety Window Devices

Following a spate of child deaths from falling out of windows, the New South Wales Government introduced a Bill in 2015 to require certain owners corporations to install window safety…