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Johore Bar Seminar | General Meetings In Strata Schemes: The Law, Procedures & Dispute Resolution

29 Nov 2024 - Fri / 1 day / 11:30am - 1:10pm / Level 1, Abdullah A. Rahman Auditorium, Johore Bar Building, No. 5 Jalan Tun Abdul Razak, Susur 1/1 80000 Johor Bahru
The Strata Management Laws & Regulations provide for notice of general meetings, the agendas to be included, types of resolutions, rights of proprietors and voting process. However, there are few lacunas in the law, for example: how the general meeting proceedings are to be conducted, contents of minutes of meetings, the type of minutes suitable for general meetings, whether proxies can participate in debates and whether the chairman of the meeting can be ousted. This seminar will provide essential guidelines on how to conduct general meetings by adhering to the intent and spirit of the Strata Management Act 2013 and the Regulations therein and explore ways in which disputes can be resolved amicably
Organisers: Johore Bar Committee

CPD Points: 2
Event Code:
T3/29112024/JHB/JHB241450/2

Description

The Strata Management Laws & Regulations provide for notice of general meetings, the agendas to be included, types of resolutions, rights of proprietors and voting process. However, there are few lacunas in the law, for example: how the general meeting proceedings are to be conducted, contents of minutes of meetings, the type of minutes suitable for general meetings, whether proxies can participate in debates and whether the chairman of the meeting can be ousted. This seminar will provide essential guidelines on how to conduct general meetings by adhering to the intent and spirit of the Strata Management Act 2013 and the Regulations therein and explore ways in which disputes can be resolved amicably

Speaker

SARASWATHY SHIRKE DEO started her career as principal lecturer in law in 1999. She has lectured law students in several local law colleges and university colleges in both the UK and Australian law programmes. After leaving academia, she pursued practice of law in 2013 and currently practices under her own boutique law firm Messrs Sara Deo & Co, focusing exclusively 

on Strata and Management laws, Law of Defamation, Injunctions, Civil Frauds Detection and Prevention, Professional Negligence, Administrative law and Commercial law.

Ms Sara Deo is also an advisor for many management bodies, companies and local authorities and has provided her legal advice and opinion on complex issues of issues on Local Government laws, Strata Management laws and Regulations and Administrative laws. She has been appointed to revamp, revise or draft afresh House Rules and additional by-laws for management bodies all over Malaysia.

Ms Sara Deo has a keen interest in law reform; she is the current Deputy Chairperson of the Civil Law and Law Reform Committee of the Bar Council and the Chairlady of the Defamation Law Reform Subcommittee of the Bar Council. She has also published several insightful articles in Malayan Law Journal over a decade and the most recent ones are on “Disclosing Personal Data of Covid19 Patients to Other Residents – A Discussion on Management Corporation’s Powers or the Lack of it” [2021] 1 MLJ cc and “An Essential Guide to the Recent Amendments Introduced to the Valuers, Appraisers, Estate Agents and Property Managers Act 1981” [2020] 1 MLJ xliii, to name a few. She also gives lectures and talks on Strata Management law, Defamation Law, Property Law and various other subjects of her interest with her characteristic engaging style of presentation.

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