Secret Votes Don’t Need To Be Secret or What I Learnt From My First Adjudicators Order
I’ve just been involved in Adjudication. A ruling I made as a returning officer was disputed by a lot owner who made an application to the Commissioners Office to overturn. That application has now been decided. Let me set the scene. I’d been appointed returning officer for Florentino Apartments, a 20 lot body corporate on […]
Question: Has My Vote Been Unfairly Invalidated?
To My BodyCorpReport.com.au I believe my (& 11 other) votes were incorrectly disqualified at a Body Corp. EGM and would appreciate your opinion in the following scenario: I would appreciate your opinion, based on the above scenario, whether the criteria applied to invalidate my vote are correct or not. A further point to mention, beyond […]
What is a Body Corporate Returning Officer?
In a lot of ways body corporates act like small democratic countries; they’re heavily legislated, led by an elected governing body, the majority rules and the citizens are (should be at least) watching what happens with an eagle eye ready to cry foul at a moments notice. And just like for a country, voting in […]