Strata Management
10 cases · May 2024 to July 2026
Case Volume by Year
1 24
2 25
7 26
2024–2026
Key Issues & Sub-Topics
Strata Management Tribunal — Maintenance charges — Sinking fund — Management body’s claim — Award for arrears — Leave for judicial review. 1 Liability for maintenance charges and sinking fund contributions — Whether arrears attach to parcel or proprietor — Successor in title under Strata Management Act 2013 ss. 60(4), 61(4). 1 Maintenance charges — Basis of calculation — Whether maintenance charges lawfully imposed on square-foot basis instead of share-unit basis — Whether tribunal award contrary to Strata Management Act 2013 and binding appellate authority — Strata Management Act 2013, ss 8, 21, 23 & 25 1 Joint management body — Statutory powers — Whether joint management body entitled to impose charges beyond statutory mandate — Charges for utilities, quit rent, strata title application, air-conditioning and insurance — Whether tribunal erred in allowing such claims 1 Borang 3 — Accessory parcels — Whether maintenance charges calculated on incorrect number of parcels — Effect of prior Court of Appeal determinations concerning accessory parcels and share units 1 Joint management body — Locus standi — Dissolution of joint management body — Purported first annual general meeting of management corporation immediately challenged — Resolutions restrained by injunction — Commissioner of Buildings appointing external manager — Subsequent consent judgment structuring handover — Whether purported meeting was legally and practically operative to trigger statutory dissolution — Strata Management Act 2013 ss 27 and 28 Strata Management — Parcel proprietors — Common property — Individual parcel proprietors seeking joinder in action concerning defects in common property — Whether statutory position of management corporation excluded joinder—Whether proprietors possessed sufficient direct and beneficial interest—Alleged conflict of interest involving management corporation 1 Strata Management Act 2013 — Section 59 — Management Corporation — Scope of Statutory Duty — Duty to Maintain and Repair — Common Property — Parcel — Distinction between Common Property and Parcel — Legal Characterisation of Structural Elements — Balcony — Roof — Whether Balcony Constitutes Roof — Functional Test vs Legal/Statutory Test — Waterproofing Layer — Inter-floor Leakage — Source of Leakage — Responsibility for Repairs — Allocation of Liability — Form 28 — Strata Management (Maintenance and Management) Regulations 2015 — Inspection and Determination — Technical Report — Evidential Weight — Tribunal Findings — Strata Management Tribunal — Tribunal Award — Compliance with Award — Failure to Rectify — Step-in Powers of Management Corporation — Recovery of Costs — Reimbursement of Repair Costs — Invoice and Proof of Payment — Consequential Relief — Interest on Judgment Sum. 1 Management Corporation — Joint Management Body — Establishment of Management Corporation upon opening of strata register — Whether Management Corporation came into existence by operation of law — Transitional role of Joint Management Body under Strata Management Act 2013 — Whether Joint Management Body automatically dissolved upon establishment of Management Corporation — Whether transitional role may continue indefinitely — Failure to convene 1st AGM for approximately ten years — Whether prolonged delay inconsistent with statutory framework and legislative intent — Statutory objective of transferring management control to purchaser-controlled body — Judicial intervention to compel compliance with statutory scheme — Declaratory and consequential reliefs — Prayer seeking declaration that Joint Management Body unlawful and dissolved refused — Strata Titles Act 1985 — Strata Management Act 2013, ss. 3, 15, 27, 46, 55 & 57 — Palm Spring Joint Management Body & Anor v Muafakat Kekal Sdn Bhd & Anor [2016] 2 MLJ 191. 1 Renovation works — Stop work order — Whether management body justified in preventing renovation works — Tribunal award revoking stop work order — Effect of “without prejudice” proviso — Reliance on local authority correspondence — Whether sufficient evidence of breach — Declaratory and injunctive relief. 1 Joint management body — Claim for outstanding maintenance charges and sinking fund — Liability dependent on ownership of units — Whether defendant registered proprietor. 1 Developer — Meaning of “developer” — Whether confined to party named in certificate of establishment — Functional and purposive interpretation — Project management agreement and powers of attorney conferring full authority — Issuance of vacant possession — Convening first annual general meeting — Holding of maintenance and sinking fund accounts — Whether first defendant fell within definition of “developer” — Strata Management Act 2013, ss 2, 18 1 Mixed development — Maintenance charges — Differential charge rates — JMB period — Limited Common Property — Exclusive use of common facilities — Additional by-laws — Special resolutions — Share units — Proportionate contributions — SiFUS — Budgeting and expenditure — Fair and justifiable proportion — Just and reasonable rates — Ultra vires challenge — Declaratory relief — Distinction from Menara Rajawali — Application of Pearl Suria — Interpretation of SMA 2013 and statutory framework — SPAs and DMCs — Estoppel — Public interest — Locus standi — COB and KPKT guidance — OS dismissed. Provisions referred to: Strata Management Act 2013, ss. 8, 12, 17, 21, 23, 24, 25(3), 32, 52; Strata Management (Maintenance and Management) Regulations 2015, Third Schedule, by-laws 2(1)(a), 4; Housing Development (Control and Licensing) Regulations 1989, Fifth Schedule, Schedule H; Strata Titles (Selangor) Rules 2015, para. 9(4). 1
Strata Management Tribunal — Maintenance charges — Sinking fund — Management body’s claim — Award for arrears — Leave for judicial review. 1 case
Liability for maintenance charges and sinking fund contributions — Whether arrears attach to parcel or proprietor — Successor in title under Strata Management Act 2013 ss. 60(4), 61(4). 1 case
Joint management body — Statutory powers — Whether joint management body entitled to impose charges beyond statutory mandate — Charges for utilities, quit rent, strata title application, air-conditioning and insurance — Whether tribunal erred in allowing such claims 1 case
Joint management body — Locus standi — Dissolution of joint management body — Purported first annual general meeting of management corporation immediately challenged — Resolutions restrained by injunction — Commissioner of Buildings appointing external manager — Subsequent consent judgment structuring handover — Whether purported meeting was legally and practically operative to trigger statutory dissolution — Strata Management Act 2013 ss 27 and 28 Strata Management — Parcel proprietors — Common property — Individual parcel proprietors seeking joinder in action concerning defects in common property — Whether statutory position of management corporation excluded joinder—Whether proprietors possessed sufficient direct and beneficial interest—Alleged conflict of interest involving management corporation 1 case
Strata Management Act 2013 — Section 59 — Management Corporation — Scope of Statutory Duty — Duty to Maintain and Repair — Common Property — Parcel — Distinction between Common Property and Parcel — Legal Characterisation of Structural Elements — Balcony — Roof — Whether Balcony Constitutes Roof — Functional Test vs Legal/Statutory Test — Waterproofing Layer — Inter-floor Leakage — Source of Leakage — Responsibility for Repairs — Allocation of Liability — Form 28 — Strata Management (Maintenance and Management) Regulations 2015 — Inspection and Determination — Technical Report — Evidential Weight — Tribunal Findings — Strata Management Tribunal — Tribunal Award — Compliance with Award — Failure to Rectify — Step-in Powers of Management Corporation — Recovery of Costs — Reimbursement of Repair Costs — Invoice and Proof of Payment — Consequential Relief — Interest on Judgment Sum. 1 case
Management Corporation — Joint Management Body — Establishment of Management Corporation upon opening of strata register — Whether Management Corporation came into existence by operation of law — Transitional role of Joint Management Body under Strata Management Act 2013 — Whether Joint Management Body automatically dissolved upon establishment of Management Corporation — Whether transitional role may continue indefinitely — Failure to convene 1st AGM for approximately ten years — Whether prolonged delay inconsistent with statutory framework and legislative intent — Statutory objective of transferring management control to purchaser-controlled body — Judicial intervention to compel compliance with statutory scheme — Declaratory and consequential reliefs — Prayer seeking declaration that Joint Management Body unlawful and dissolved refused — Strata Titles Act 1985 — Strata Management Act 2013, ss. 3, 15, 27, 46, 55 & 57 — Palm Spring Joint Management Body & Anor v Muafakat Kekal Sdn Bhd & Anor [2016] 2 MLJ 191. 1 case
Joint management body — Claim for outstanding maintenance charges and sinking fund — Liability dependent on ownership of units — Whether defendant registered proprietor. 1 case
Key Statutes
Rules of Court 2012
cited in 3 cases Strata Titles Act 1985 (Cap 318)
cited in 3 cases Strata Management Act 2013
cited in 1 case Interpretation Act
cited in 1 case Limitation Act 1953 (Cap 254)
cited in 1 case Evidence Act 1950 (Cap 56)
cited in 1 case National Land Code 1965
cited in 1 case Contracts Act 1950 (Cap 136)
cited in 1 case National Land Code (Cap 828)
cited in 1 case Court Distribution
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Top Judges
Top Firms
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23 May 2024
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