Committee Tyrants

Jim,

In Dec 2016, you wrote an article titled “Fair Trading Minister Victor Dominello poised to crack down on strata law tyrants”

see : https://www.domain.com.au/news/fair-trading-minister-victor-dominello-poised-to-crack-down-on-strata-law-tyrants-20161209-gt7u6s/

Given that the focus is on actions of committee members, can you confirm ;

1) Were the minister’s comments taken from a public (Domain ?) presentation ? I googled it , but could not find the original source of the minister’s comments. Link ?

2) Section 232 – Orders to settle disputes or rectify complaints

https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/ssma2015242/s232.html

Your article referenced Section 232. One would expect that it is quite difficult for an owner to initiate/put forward a case to NCAT under this section. Wouldn’t ‘Fair Trading’ take an active interest/involvement in such a case (eg. at the point of ‘Mediation’) as it would be based on a committee ‘undermining/subverting the law in some way…’. 

3) Have you known of any cases dealing with this ?

thanks