The Supreme Court has recently issued its decision on long running litigation concerning the rights of owners to access their units when restrictions are put in place by the Body Corporate purportedly on the basis of security. This long running litigation concerned a student accommodation block where the building manager was requiring unit owners to sign a management lease and where some owners had refused to do so. The Body Corporate and the building manager refused to provide electronic access cards to the owners of those units and essentially locked those unit owners out.
The High Court, Court of Appeal and now the Supreme Court have indicated that the Body Corporate does not have such powers under the statutory framework.
The Supreme Court held that a unit owner is given a natural right of access to the owner’s unit and that the Body Corporate was unreasonably interfering with the owner’s rights by restricting that access.
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