Special Resolution vs Resolution

I can understand why you use the pseudonym “overit”; I would be also in these circumstances.

I gather you’re the “minority” who made application for Orders to compulsorily appoint a Strata Manager for your two-unit plan, and that before making that application you were aware that any Strata Manager who may now be appointed is customarily empowered (by the Order) to carry out all the functions of the Owners Corporation and the Executive Committee – that is, without any involvement by the Owners; no meetings, no discussions, no nothing!

Any Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) convened by the “majority” could only push-through the engagement of lawyers by the Owners Corporation IF a formal quotation / scope of services had been provided and tabled at the Meeting, and only then to a maximum fee of $2,000 in your case (2 Lots).

Although in any event, given the “powers” of a compulsorily appointed Strata Manager it would in my opinion be illegal for any General Meeting to be convened during the period between lodgement of the Application for Orders and the making of a determination by an Adjudicator.

If in doubt though, you could try contacting the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal and ask them, as you may get a better response than the CTTT would provide.