What we do
DEA Lawyers provides expert advice and services in the areas of strata title and real property law, commercial disputes, construction disputes, contracts and the recovery of debts.
We act for owners corporations, community associations, building management committees, lot owners, caretakers, strata managers and developers in a wide range of matters involving group title schemes.
We also act for individuals and corporations in commercial matters and disputes.
A more detailed summary of the services that we provide is set out below.
- Strata title and real property law
- Construction Disputes (Building Defects)
- Debt Recovery
- Litigation and Disputes
- Planning and Local Government Law
Strata title and real property law
- Drafting and advising about by-laws
- Disputes about by-laws
- Disputes with lot owners and enforcement of orders
- Drafting management rights/caretaker agreements
- Disputes about management rights/caretaker agreements
- Advising about structuring of group title developments
- Claims against developers for building defects and breaches of fiduciary duty
- Advice about re-allocation of unit entitlements
- Attendance at owners corporations meetings
- Advising about owners corporations meeting procedure
- Dividing Fences Act Claims
- Insurance claims and requirements
- Disputes with lot owners (for both owners and owners corporations)
- Tree disputes
- Boundary and easement disputes
Construction Disputes (Building Defects)
- Building defect insurance claims
- Claims against builders, developers and others involved in the construction of strata schemes
- Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999
- Advice about claims against builders, developers, home owners, warranty insurers and others involved in the construction of strata and community title developments
- Drafting building contracts and advising in relation to building contracts
Debt Recovery
- Letters of demand
- Debt recovery claims and appearances in proceedings in the Local Court, District Court and Supreme Courts
- Bankruptcy
- Winding up
- Insolvency
Litigation and Disputes
- Advice about commercial disputes
- Mediation and alternative dispute resolution
- Applications to the CTTT
- Claims in the Local Court, District Court, Supreme Court and Federal Court
- Contract disputes
- Lease disputes
- Injunctions and specific performance
- Professional negligence claims
- Claims relating to misleading and deceptive conduct under the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) and Fair Trading Act 1987 (NSW).
- Disputes about the failure to maintain and repair common property pursuant to Section 62 of the Strata Schemes Management Act 1996 (both on behalf of Owners Corporation and lot owners)
Planning and Local Government Law
- Advice about Council orders
- Appeals against Council orders to the Land & Environment Court
- Advice about Development Applications
- Objections against Development Applications