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Ainsworth v Albrecht

[2016] HCA 40
Judgment date
Case number
B37/2016
Before
French CJ, Bell, Keane, Nettle, Gordon JJ
Catchwords

Real property – Community titles scheme – Use of common property – Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997 (Q) – Dispute between owners of lots in community titles scheme – Where one lot owner sought to use common property airspace to expand balconies – Where proposal put to body corporate for alteration of rights of lot owners to allow lot owner exclusive use of common property – Where proposal required resolution without dissent – Where motion defeated – Where proponent applied for dispute resolution – Where adjudicator concluded that opposition by other lot owners to proposal unreasonable – Whether adjudicator erred in approach to decision – Whether grounds for opposition to motion by individual lot owners unreasonable – Whether necessary to balance competing interests.

Words and phrases – "adjudicator", "body corporate", "common property", "original design intent", "resolution without dissent", "unreasonable in the circumstances".

Body Corporate and Community Management Act 1997 (Q) – ss 94(2), 276, Sched 5, Item 10.

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