A building management statement (“BMS”) is essentially an agreement between two or more entities...
Duties of Committee Members
Being elected as a committee member in Queensland is more significant than what most owners think. D...
Don’t forget the formalities!
For lot owners in smaller body corporate schemes, particularly in 2 lot schemes, it may be tempting ...
Are retro strata buildings back in vogue?
Strata managers and lawyers will tell you building defects have been a consistent issue in the apart...
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 ...
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 Universit...
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 S...
A timely reminder about defamation
Defamation appears to be a popular topic of late. Following Geoffrey Rush’s award of the largest p...
Child Safety Window Devices
Following a spate of child deaths from falling out of windows, the New South Wales Government introd...