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Mad about Magnesite?

Strata, Building Defects

Posted 24 October 2024

What is Magnesite Flooring? Magnesite flooring was commonly installed in Australia throughout the 1960’s and up until the early 1980’s. It involved the mixing of magnesium oxychloride cement wi…

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Don’t be a Nuisance

Strata

Posted 02 June 2021

What is "nuisance"? Nuisance is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as: “a person or thing causing inconvenience or annoyance.” In NSW, private nuisance laws are generally derived from case law…

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Exploding Glass Panels – Building Defects

Building Defects

Posted 31 May 2021

The problem of nickel sulphide particles causing toughened glass panels to spontaneously shatter or explode without any mechanical damage being caused to them has been known about in expert glass arti…

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Can I use that Document too? – Not without copyright

Strata

Posted 20 May 2021

One great way to incur a large debt is to reuse a commercial document without the consent of the copyright owner. We see this regularly and it rarely ends well.…

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The What’s and Why’s of VOI’s

Strata, By-Laws

Posted 12 May 2021

There appears to a great deal of confusion regarding the verification of identity (VOI) process and in this factsheet we aim to clarify what VOI is all about.…

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Control of Unauthorised Parking – Common Sense Prevails

Strata

Posted 05 May 2021

Bannermans Lawyers’ clients recently achieved a great result in the NSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal (“Tribunal”), which we expect will bring to an end long standing parking problems.…

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Unauthorised Parking – What can Owners Corporations Do?

Strata, By-Laws

Posted 05 September 2023

Parking is a vexing question. Owners corporations and their strata managing agents have been struggling with it for years. They are not helped by uncertainties in the law, limited police and council p…

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Be wary of any Combustible Cladding material in excess of 8% PE

Building Defects

Posted 03 May 2021

The NSW Government has created the Cladding Product Safety Panel to provide expert advice to the NSW Cladding Taskforce and the Cladding Support Unit on the suitability of cladding replacement product…

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