ABOUT THE FIRM

Alex Ilkin is a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales with over 35 years legal experience and an acknowledged specialist in all aspects of strata schemes law, community schemes law and building defect claims.

For many years Alex has taught strata law at the University of Western Sydney and various colleges throughout Sydney and regularly gives lectures on strata law at seminars conducted for University of New South Wales, the Institute of Strata Titles Management, the Real Estate Institute of New South Wales, the Australian College of Community Association Lawyers and the former Home Unit Owners Association of New South Wales. Alex is a current member of the Institute of Strata Title Management and a Fellow of the Australian College of Community Association Lawyers. He has served as a committee member of the Real Estate Institute (Strata Management Chapter) and the New South Wales Government’s Strata Titles Act Review Committee – which recommended to Parliament appropriate amendments to the Strata Titles Act 1973 (NSW) and the current Strata Schemes Management Act 1996 (NSW). He has acted as legal advisor for owners corporations, developers, solicitors, barristers and judges in strata matters. His plain English style of communication has proven very popular with clients.

He is the author of the leading, reader-friendly textbook on strata and community title law called, “NSW Strata and Community Schemes Management and the Law”, (now in its' fourth edition) which is often called the “Strata Bible” and the recommended text for many university courses. He has also published several articles on practical solutions to problems experienced in strata and community schemes in New South Wales. Alex often appears as a guest speaker on radio and has acted as solicitor in many of the leading edge strata title cases decided in New South Wales Supreme Court and Court of Appeal. His recent cases (found on the Austlii website) include:

1. Buzrio Pty Ltd v The Consumer, Trader & Tenancy Tribunal (No 4) [2010] NSWSC 41
   (Interim orders, compulsory strata managing agent, certiorari, indemnity for agent’s costs and legal costs).
2. Buzrio Pty Ltd v The Consumer, Trader & Tenancy Tribunal [2009] NSWSC 836
   (Interim orders, denial of procedural fairness and compulsory strata managing agent).
3. The Owners – Strata Plan No 35042 v Seiwa (Australia) Pty Ltd [2007] NSWCA 36
   (Maintenance and repair of common property, CTTT jurisdiction, lot boundary definition, rent loss claim, mandatory injunction).
4. Riana Pty Ltd v The Owners – Strata Plan No 22336 [2007] NSWSC 1033
   (Challenge unit entitlements, Makita principles, error or law).
5. Symes v The Proprietors – Strata Plan No 31731 [2003] NSWCA 7
   (Common property damage, maintenance and repair, lot boundary definition, error of law).
6. Eventang Development (Pyrmont) Pty Ltd v The Owners – Strata Plan No 51573 [2001] NSWSC 452
   (Proxies, quash Board’s decision, invalid resolutions, waiver and estoppel).
7. Smith v The Body Corporate – Strata Plan No 22669 (1997) NSW Titles Cases 80-046
   (Outstanding and retrospective levies, compulsory strata managing agent’s power and meetings).