How Indefeasible is Your Strata Title? Unresolved Torrens Problems is Strata and Community Title
Author or co-authors: Cathy Sherry
Published: Bond Law Review, vol. 21, pp. 159-181
Keywords: By-laws/rules/CC&Rs, Law,
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Nothing sets my teeth on edge like a real estate sign screaming ‘Oversized Torrens Title Townhouses’. This is because it is unlikely that new townhouses could be on Old System titles. So why do agents use the term Torrens? Because what they in fact mean by ‘Torrens Title’ is ‘not strata title’ and ‘not community title’. Of course, strata and community title are Torrens title, but what agents are trying to convey is that the townhouses do not have titles burdened by the restrictions, obligations, social and legal complications that come with ownership of strata or community title.Does Discrimination Law Apply to Strata Schemes?
Author or co-authors: Cathy Sherry
Published: Law Society of New South Wales Property Law Specialist Accreditation Conference, 4 August, 2017, Sydney
Keywords: By-laws/rules/CC&Rs, Law,
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Discrimination law typically applies in the public, not private sphere • Refusing to allow a guide dog into your private home or refusing to date someone because of their religion or ethnicity might make you an unpleasant person, but it is not illegal • Strata schemes are private property and it is not clear whether discrimination law applies to them • The strata Acts recognise this in the prohibition on by-laws that ban guide and hearing dogs and/or assistance animals – if those provisions were not there, prima facie schemes could prevent those animals entering schemes (...)A Bigger Strata Footprint: Are We Aware of the Implications?
Author or co-authors: Cathy Sherry
Published: Griffith University Strata and Community Title Conference, 2011
Keywords: By-laws/rules/CC&Rs, Law,
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To insertLessons in Personal Freedom and Functional Land Markets: What Strata and Community Title Can Learn from Traditional Doctrines of Property
Author or co-authors: Cathy Sherry
Published: University of New South Wales Law Journal, vol. 36, pp. 280-315.
Keywords: By-laws/rules/CC&Rs, Law,
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To insertSame Building, Different Law: Global Property Development in Disparate Common Law Systems Over Two Centuries
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