What we do

DEA Lawyers provides expert advice and representation in:

  • Strata title, community title and real property law
  • Commercial disputes
  • Construction disputes with a keen focus on construction defect disputes within the strata and community title sector.
  • Contracts
  • Debt recovery

We act for owners corporations, community associations, building management committees, lot owners, caretakers and strata managers in a wide range of matters involving strata and community title schemes.

We also represent individuals and corporations in commercial matters and disputes.

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
  • Insurance claims and requirements
  • Disputes with lot owners (for both owners and owners corporations)
  • Boundary and easement disputes

Litigation and Disputes

  • Advice about commercial disputes
  • Mediation and alternative dispute resolution
  • Applications to the NCAT
  • 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
  • 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 corporations and lot owners)

Construction Disputes & Contracts

  • Building defect claims including claims against builders, developers, sub-contractors, professionals, certifiers and insurers
  • Drafting and advice in relation to building contracts including contracts relating to remedial works

Debt Recovery

  • Levy recovery
  • Debt recovery proceedings in the Local, District and Supreme Courts
  • Bankruptcy proceedings
  • Winding up and insolvency matters