About Us
Knowledge and Experience
Successful outcomes in strata law matters, whether advice or disputes, depend on two key ingredients:
Knowledge and Experience.
Knowledge
Strata law is a unique blend of property law, construction law, trust law, company law, contract law and meeting law. An intimate knowledge of the provisions of the Acts and Regulations is the starting point, not the complete answer. Countless decisions of the Supreme Court on each of the successive statutory schemes over the past 60 years have shown that the answers to difficult questions and disputes often lie outside the statutory words and instead in a clear understanding of the underlying legal framework and concepts.
As one author of the authoritative texts, Strata Law in NSW and Joske’s Law and Procedure at Meetings in Australia, our leading counsel literally “wrote the book”. Our team of counsel have an intimate working understanding of the statutory scheme, the underlying legal concepts and the hundreds of decided cases, to bring to bear on your strata legal problem, such as by-laws, contracts, building defects, common property issues, meetings, voting or any other strata matter.
Experience
Experience is the second critical ingredient. Strata law involves not only a special blend of relevant law, but a unique overlay of interpersonal relationships between developer, builder, strata manager, building manager, strata committee, owners, tenants and neighbours. Solutions to problems, inside or outside a Court or NCAT, come from experience.
Only coal face experience of dealing with disputes teaches what works and why, and what not to do, to avoid future problems. That ability only comes with the experience of running thousands of hearings dealing with the widest variety of disputes.
Our counsel also have experience in advising on strata redevelopments and advising other industry participants on engaging with owners corporations.
The right advice, comes from experience.
Our Leading Counsel
Expert Representation
Our teams of counsel, led by pre-eminent Australian silk Wayne Muddle SC, provides efficient, expert and effective representation with integrity. Our team has decades of experience in advocacy and strata advice with an enviable results record.
Wayne Gordon Muddle S.C., B.Ec., LL.M. (Syd)
- Wayne Muddle is Senior Counsel for the State of New South Wales Australia.
- A specialist Advocate for over 30 years, he has a vast breadth of experience in disputes and advising on how to avoid them.
- Prior to becoming a specialist advocate he was a transactions lawyer with Coudert Bros International Attorneys and Allens + Linklaters.
Mr Alexander Djurdjevic LLB (WSU) LLM (CoL)
- Alexander Djurdjevic holds a Bachelor of Laws from the Univeristy of Western Sydney as well as a Master of Laws from the College of Law.
- He is a experienced commerical barrister with extensive advocacy experience across broad areas of practice, including Strata Law, Succession, Insurance law, Contract, Commerical, Equity and Appeals.
- Before being called to the bar, Mr Djurdjevic worked as a solicitor at boutique law firms specialising in Commerical and Insurance law.