by Cameron Shaw | Jul 26, 2026
What is Company Title? Company Title was the primary legal structure for apartment ownership in NSW (and elsewhere) before Strata Title became the dominant structure after being introduced (in NSW as it happens!) in 1961. Strata Title as a concept spread across the...
by Cameron Shaw | Apr 30, 2024
Case Note – Sue for Specific Performance or Termination for Breach of an Essential Term – don’t get fooled that each 5% clause is the same as the next! Alexakis v Wan [2021] NSWCA 172 (11 August 2021) The decision is a decision of the NSW Court of...
by Cameron Shaw | Nov 25, 2020
NO An agent does not have a duty to disclose the existence of an AVO between a tenant and a neighbour. However, if asked about the AVO the agent cannot make misleading representations about relations between yourself and the neighbour. Pursuant to section 52 of the...
by Cameron Shaw | Feb 12, 2018
When selling your home or investment property vendors normally engage two primary professionals: a real estate agent, and a solicitor (or conveyancer). Normally, if a vendor doesn’t have a regular solicitor, most vendors approach a real estate agent first. It is...
by Cameron Shaw | Dec 15, 2017
It is common practice for vendors to agree to a ten per cent deposit ‘paid by instalments’, with five per cent paid on exchange and the remaining five percent paid on settlement. This practice was considered in Boyarsky v Taylor [2008] NSWSC 1415. In this case, the...
